[33237] in bugtraq
Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dinesh Nair)
Sat Jan 24 15:25:34 2004
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 03:11:47 +0800 (MYT)
From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br
Cc: computerguy@cfl.rr.com, <BUGTRAQ@securityfocus.com>
In-Reply-To: <40116C62.5010109@tco.net.br>
Message-ID: <20040125031021.Y8366-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
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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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| for a in past present future; do |
| for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do |
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