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British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case

Posted by samzenpus on from the whatever-I-do-what-I-want dept.

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 It appears that the Computer Misuse Act is a bit outdated being that it was created 15 years ago when a number, perhaps most, of the current methods for misuse of computers were not contemplated."

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  1. Why does my job remind me of a song I once knew? by picz+plz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It went like this:

    One little, two little, three little Indians
    Four little, five little, six little Indians
    Seven little, eight little, nine little Indians
    Ten little Indian boys

    Ten little, nine little, eight little 'mericans
    Seven little, six little, five little 'mericans
    Four little, three little, two little 'mericans
    One little 'merican boy

    Today's secret word is: methods. For the rest of the day, whenever anybody says the secret word, scream real loud!