Re: So, did the BBC cross the line?

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

The Click programme clearly -assumed- that the botnet was not purely UK
based, right from the start of the programme. So they were assuming that
they would be protected by the purity of their intent in the UK -and-
abroad, if they thought about other jurisdictions at all.

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David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
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> Subject: Re: [funsec] So, did the BBC cross the line?
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> For extra fun, redefine the "line" in the phrase "crossing the line."
>
> So far we've been looking at the legality of this act in 
> terms of the relevant British law.  However, did anyone check 
> that all of those infected computers were, in fact, in 
> Britain?  I suspect that not only did this go unchecked, but 
> that, in fact, a large number were in other jurisdictions.
>
> So, leave us suppose that one of the said machines was here 
> in the Great White North.  Our criminal code states that 
> anyone who, without colour of right (I love that phrase) 
> alters (I think it's alters, but it might be modifies) any 
> data on a computer system is guilty of an offence.
>
> Anyone think of any way to command a botnet without changing any data?
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