Re: Computer Misuse Act

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:56:51 +0100, Chris Lawrence
<news03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>I don't see that there are any chances being taken. And coming back to
>my original point, I don't see how your advice is workable, even if we
>got around the thorny issues of what is meant by "published" and what
>constitues a "path" in a URL.

Why do you think it is not workable? As I have pointed out, it means
behaving no differently to the way that 99.9% of web users behave all
the time - because they don't know how to do anything different.

>> In this case, the reason was far simpler. The defendant openly
>> admitted that what he did was an attempt to access a part of the
>> server that he knew he had no permission to access. He made the
>> admission because like many posters in this thread, he believed that
>> he was entitled to enter whatever path he wanted on a public server to
>> see whether it granted him access. He now knows that the law does not
>> agree. And also that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

>You're confusing two separate things which should not be confused, and
>which were not confused in the ruling. One is editing a URL. The other
>is trying to access part of a filesystem which lies beyond that served
>by a web server.

Well, if you ever get accused, I wish you good luck in trying to
explain the difference to the average magistrate or jury.

--
Cynic

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