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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Ian Hill writes "It seems that the UK government is not as technologically withdrawn as you may think.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. What if? by squarefish · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Their site gets /.'d?

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  2. Slashdot is in trouble... by dubiousmike · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...now that they have posted a link to the bill.

    Watch as the Parliament's website chokes to a halt.

  3. RIAA and MPAA exempted? by gmhowell · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Are the RIAA and MPAA exempted from this law?

    Just curious.

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  4. so.. by bo0push3r · · Score: 0, Redundant

    does this mean that RIAA and company will have to back off of this P2P-DoS madness?

  5. What about Microsoft service packs? by geophile · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have nothing else to say on this. Thank you.

  6. So by this... by MarvinMouse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Will the slashdot effect be officially illegal in Britian.

    I remember one person telling me that the Slashdot effect is the only legal DoS attack. :-) I guess that'll change.

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