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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Ian Hill writes "It seems that the UK government is not as technologically withdrawn as you may think.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. Ha anyone told Rep. Howard Berman ? by drew_kime · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if this will get passed before this.

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  2. Degredation of a computer system? by restauff · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time I download a big movie or file from a fast server, I cause degredation to my connection, and so my computer system. How does one define at what point it is intentional, and at what point serious damage is done to the system?

  3. 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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  4. 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.