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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Ian Hill writes "It seems that the UK government is not as technologically withdrawn as you may think.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. 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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