[96173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UK ISP threatens security researcher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Fri Apr 20 13:44:59 2007
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:42:40 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070420151225.GA31047@cabal.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In article <20070420151225.GA31047@cabal.org.uk>, Peter Corlett
<abuse@cabal.org.uk> writes
>> 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.
But the relevant sections of PJA 2006 are not in force yet, nor is there
any authoritative prediction of when they will be. (If I had to guess,
I'd say "at least another six months").
--
Roland Perry
