full-disclosure - Re: The BBC acquired a botnet, but was it legal?

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Message-ID: <8a6b8e350903160132i65bb693asda368bae49f0b616@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:32:39 +0200
From: James Matthews <nytrokiss@...il.com>
To: "Ivan ." <ivanhec@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: The BBC acquired a botnet,
	but was it legal? - 	Update

No it's not acceptable! But they seem to do what ever suits them!

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Ivan . <ivanhec@...il.com> wrote:

> According to Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent
> Masons, in a posting on Out-Law.com, the BBC's statement that the
> activity would only be illegal if those behind it had criminal intent
> is not true. Robertson said "The BBC appears to have broken the
> Computer Misuse Act by causing 22,000 computers to send spam. It does
> not matter that the emails were sent to the BBC's own accounts and
> criminal intent is not necessary to establish an offence of
> unauthorised access to a computer". However, Robertson does not think
> the BBC will be punished for the action "because the BBC's actions
> probably caused no harm."
>
>
> http://www.h-online.com/security/The-BBC-acquired-a-botnet-but-was-it-legal-Update--/news/112834
>
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