> > On 7 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: > > > William T Wilson writes: > > > In states with "Good Samaritan" laws you are likely to be > shielded from > > > liability as long as any action you take is clearly > intended as help. > > > > State laws are irrelevant. It's a Federal law, enforced by > the same people > > who are prosecuting Sklyarov.
> From: Sebastiaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:53 PM > > What about world law? I belive that you always operate under > the law of > the country where you live in. But laws are only made to help > people, what > must be done if a law prevents you from helping those? A > system that has > too many of this laws is asking for Anarchy. > > So if you are able to login such a machine and broadcast a message to > prevent that the entire internet will go down eventually, > what is against > it? No systems are harmed and certainly no one died. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > Consider this case A web page /default.ida exists on a server which when requested (via Code Red)pops up a message on the affected computer. How can it be illegal when it was the affected machine which requested the script in the first place ? I have not initiated a hack nor attempted to infiltrate the system. It was the originating syetem which requested the file, which in turn executed a legitimate script. Ian
