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UK Parliament to ban DoS Attacks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-luck-enforcing-it dept.

Ian Hill writes "It seems that the UK government is not as technologically withdrawn as you may think. This bill is an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 which bans Denial of Service attacks by name. It states that a person is guilty of an offence if they cause, or intend to cause, 'degradation, failure or other impairment of function of a computerised system.'"

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  1. Thank God by Ashcrow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now no one will ever do it!

  2. First Criminals by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the first two people charged will be:

    Ian Hill and CmdrTaco for causing a slashdotting of the UK Parliament server!

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  3. irony by s20451 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So we slashdotted them with a link. How ironic. Can I rat out Taco for a reduced sentence?

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  4. English Law by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 4, Funny
    In other news, it is still legal in Chechire (Chester) England to shoot, with a crossbow, any Welsh person, as long as you do it inside the city walls after 11 PM.

    (don't ask me for a reference, I found it on a 'Stupid Laws' page that has subsequently shut down)

  5. This is very good. by tshak · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is very good - I mean consider all of the damage that DOS could do to your machine. It's insecure, lacks multitasking, and requires users to configure EMM386 and HIMEM.SYS just to play Doom. Let's just hope that bin Laden doesn't have the technology available to perform a DOS install/attack on all of our machines.

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  6. Re:First Criminals; This is *NOT* funny by lingqi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read the damn file! it reads:

    A person is guilty of the offence in subsection (1)(a) even if the act was not intended to cause such an effect, provided that a reasonable person could have anticipated that the act would have caused such an effect.

    this means no more posting of links on slashdot linking to UK sites lest Taco becomes an international criminal.

    somebody in UK, please write your queen about this.

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