[96165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UK ISP threatens security researcher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Fri Apr 20 11:25:03 2007
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:12:25 +0100
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From: Peter Corlett <abuse@cabal.org.uk>
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:20:50PM +0100, Will Hargrave wrote:
[...]
> In his blog post [1] he did admit to accessing other routers of Be's
> customers using the backdoor password; this is probably [2] a criminal
> offence in the UK. I'm not sure I have as much sympathy for him as you do.
> [2] IANAL
It *is* a criminal offence under extensions to the original CMA1990 in the
Police and Justice Act 2006. The maximum penalty was also increased to two
years imprisonment.
I don't think this particular incident is enough to attract a custodial
sentence, but he will almost certainly end up with a well-deserved criminal
record for his stupidity if somebody can be bothered to press charges.
