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

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh () alphaque com>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 Daniel.Capo () tco net br wrote:

> 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.

which begs the question, unless it was explicitly labelled as such, how
would the accessor know that he was committing unauthorized access ?

this is quite similar to sites say, accidentally exporting windows or nfs
shares out to the internet. a query of the server will return a mount
request legitimate.

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh () alphaque com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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