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British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case
legaleagll writes "According to this article , a British Judge has ruled that a teen who sent approximately 5,000,000 e-mails to his former employer was not in violation of the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act. It appears that the Computer Misuse Act is a bit outdated being that it was created 15 years ago when a number, perhaps most, of the current methods for misuse of computers were not contemplated."
What a nerd. "If my electronic mail-bombe doesn't inconvenience my former employer, then my name isn't Melvin Q. Ucklesworth!"
This is most likely what he said while rubbing his peach-fuzz moustache (nothing to twirl evilly quite yet.)
Just as the rape victim shouldn't've worn a short skirt, the employer should've had a faster mailserver damnit!
maybe the company can claim that the dude made some threats in the past. Maybe they can label him as a super-advanced cyber-terrorist and extradite him to US. (Maybe they can make him disapper there - in one of the secret prisons.) Wait - with the Blunkett laws, maybe they can do this without US help.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
And look at that floating comma... "According to this article , a British Judge..." They really should stop calling themselves editors and start calling themselves what they really are - cronjobs. They probably spend five minutes in the morning picking stories and play games for the rest of the day.
It's illegal to mod your gaming console or copy your copy-protected CDs to your iPod but go ahead and fuck up some email servers? Got it.
The editors converted it from British Emails into American e-mails. Thus 5 million becomes 3 million.
Oh wait that's still backwards. *shakes fist* damn editors!
Let's all send him email's of congratulation. 5,000,000 per ./ reader seems appropriate.
Or maybe sign him up for a few catalogs.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Computer Misuse Act is a bit outdated being that it was created 15 years ago when a number, perhaps most, of the current methods for misuse of computers were not contemplated.
yes, i'm feeling like slashdotting my employer's website.
If the editors had written it like "his previous employers, who are at this link: _______", then we'd get to see if they got around to updating that server. My money is on 'yes'.
Your mom gave me a cronjob last night...
If you live in Britian, drop this article around the office, then start dressing like someone from the matrix and talking in tech jargon. Your boss will fear you, and you'll be able to get away with murder!
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No no no... the summary says 3,000,000 and the article says "5 million".
We all know that "5 million" equals "3,000,000".
If they meant "5,000,000" they would have written "5 mebimillion".
Just imagine that
Perhaps his exec forced him to do that?
Some years ago a friend of mine was a phreaker. Eventually he got caught.
The cops had to individually read out each phone call from the itemized list they had been given saying something like "on 12th september 1985 did you make a call to 555 5555" and he had to answer yes or no. It took them 10 hours of interview to get through the list.
When it got down to it there wasn't a suitable law in statue and they could only charge him with "Theft of Electricity" and he ended up with a minor fine.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter