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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 It appears that the Computer Misuse Act is a bit outdated being that it was created 15 years ago when a number, perhaps most, of the current methods for misuse of computers were not contemplated."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.)
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.
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...