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Re: SPAM, credit card numbers, what would you do?


From: /dev/null <devnull () iprimus com au>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:03:12 +1000

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 03:33, Cael Abal wrote:
A number of 'hackers' recently in the news did their 'hacking' via web
browsers -- just like you.  It could likely be successfully argued by a
prosecutor that you intentionally stole this credit card data.  Yes, I
know it was a via clickable link and the site was ridiculously
unsecured, but that probably wouldn't make a difference to a court.

How is 'hacking' defined where you are? In Australia (at least in NSW),
and some other places, an access control mechanism of some description
has to be circumvented for it to be an offence.

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