On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:08:14AM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Alex de Kruijff writes: > > > In my country forcing you way in to a computer system is a criminal act. > > It can be compared to breaking in to a house. > > It is in most countries. However, persons prosecuted for such crimes > have mounted successful defenses based on the fact that they were never > explicitly told that the systems they penetrated were legally accessible > only to authorized users. Thus, careful sysadmins today explicitly > display a message at login telling the user that only authorized users > are permitted to access the system. Many operating systems even make > special provisions for this.
Where these persons prosecuted lately? Because in the early days lot of computer laws didn't exist. This made it easier to have a defence agains such lawsuites. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
