bugtraq - Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401291706370.22279@dzyngiel.ipartners.pl>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:09:27 +0100 (CET)
From: Mariusz Woloszyn <emsi@...rtners.pl>
To: Daniel.Capo@....net.br
Cc: computerguy@....rr.com, BUGTRAQ@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 Daniel.Capo@....net.br wrote:

> > Which means the Democrats screwed up setting up their own share point and
> > allowed public access to it.  There was no "computer glitch" which was
> > "exploited".  This was completely a human screw-up.  And there was no
> > hacking ("exploitation of a computer glitch") done by the Republicans.
> > Unless you wish to call clicking on a share point configured with public
> > access and opening it up "hacking".
>
> AFAIK, "hacking" is legally defined in the USA as being unauthorized
> access to computer resources. It doesn't matter if the resource was
> adequately protected (or protected at all) in first place or not. If you
> were not given permission to make use of that resource, you are
> criminally liable.
>
Do you have an explicit permission to read the content of a www.cnn.com?
What is the difference between opening a web URL and a network share?

-- 
Mariusz Wołoszyn
Internet Security Specialist, GTS - Internet Partners