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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Ian Hill writes "It seems that the UK government is not as technologically withdrawn as you may think.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. Criminal Law not Civil Law by Martin+Spamer · · Score: 4, Informative


    The Computer Misuse act is criminal law not civil law anybody breaking goes to Prison.

  2. Re:English Law by nicklott · · Score: 4, Informative

    In case anyone cares: it's here

  3. Eh ... no by 00_NOP · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not a Government Bill - so has no real chance of getting passed - especially as it has been introduced so late in the session. I don't think it's even had a 2nd Reading debate.

    Nice try, guys. But you need to update yourselves on the UK constitution.