Re: Hacker hacking could be legal

From: Jim Watt (jimwatt@aol.no.way)
Date: 03/02/03 

From: Jim Watt <jimwatt@aol.no.way>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:50:36 +0100

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:22:22 -0500, "Bill Crocker"
<wcrocker007@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>"Don Kelloway" <dkelloway@commodon.com> wrote in message
>news:RHM7a.2585$O7.578@tornadotest1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> "Striking back at computers that are attacking a company or home network
>> could be legal under federal nuisance laws, a technology-law expert said
>> Thursday."
>>
>> If further interested, check out the ZDNet article at
>> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-990469.html
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Don Kelloway
>> Commodon Communications
>> http://www.commodon.com
>>
>> Visit http://www.commodon.com to learn about Back Orifice (BO), NetBus
>(NB),
>> SubSeven (Sub7), etc. All of which are "Threats to Your Security on the
>> Internet".
>>
>>
>
>It's getting that way with everything. Not much different than no longer
>having the right to protech ones property from a criminal. Someone wants to
>set fire to your home, you can not use deadly force to stop them. Or legal
>system, here in the US, has to protect the criminal element, because it is
>them.
>
>Bill Crocker

The issue is quite different.

You cannot with 100% certainty identify the source of any problem, so
lets say someone wants to upset AOL so they pretend to be causing
a problem and you retailiate and crash the entire AOL network - who
is wrong?

As for shooting people trying to set fire to your house, civilised
countries have abolished the death penalty, more recently for
arson in HM dockyards and piracy (of the maritime kind - it may
be in the Micr$oft EULA) so why should it apply ? You should
be allowed to use rasonable force not necessarily lethal force.

As for the rest, well thats America, love it or move to somewhere
more civilised. 

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Jim Watt          http://www.gibnet.com