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The brave folks on the front line of software development
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 03:49 PM EST
People have been convicted, in the UK, for executing 'directory traversal
attacks'. That mean British Telecom automatically logged their request for
a URL where they typed "/../" as part of the address. Note that the
investigation that lead to this started from the BT log, not a complaint from
the accessed site. Simply having publicly accessible pages is not seen as
a clear invite - it depends how you find and access the page as well.

The law does not need to make sense, it is not being drafted and enforced
by the technically literate, as we have witnessed again all too recently.

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The brave folks on the front line of software development
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 12:34 AM EST

1) Any data you get from a computer on the internet is "authorised" for you to look at, otherwise why is that remote machine telling you it? Server Admin is who should get in trouble, not client user. Not current law
Not unless you do not have proper authority to access that machine and have cracked into that machine to get it to send data to you: committing identity fraud upon the remote machine.

Considering the penalties for some things, the Admins should get into trouble: depending upon the machine and set up if it was easy for a cracker to get into the machine (when it should not have been), then the Admin has clearly aided and abetted them - they (or anyone who made it easy for the cracker) should have a punishment of a minimum of at least half, if not the same as, the cracker.

Thinking back, those ebooks which were encrypted by ROT13, clearly using such a weak encryption should have made the publishers guilty of aiding and abetting those who cracked that encryption. But that's the DMCA (bought by ...) for you.

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