Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

Alex de Kruijff freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl
Fri May 6 18:28:11 PDT 2005


On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:08:14AM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Alex de Kruijff writes:
> 
> > In my country forcing you way in to a computer system is a criminal act.
> > It can be compared to breaking in to a house.
> 
> It is in most countries.  However, persons prosecuted for such crimes
> have mounted successful defenses based on the fact that they were never
> explicitly told that the systems they penetrated were legally accessible
> only to authorized users.  Thus, careful sysadmins today explicitly
> display a message at login telling the user that only authorized users
> are permitted to access the system.  Many operating systems even make
> special provisions for this.

Where these persons prosecuted lately? Because in the early days lot of
computer laws didn't exist. This made it easier to have a defence agains
such lawsuites.

-- 
Alex

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