UK ISP threatens security researcher

Roland Perry lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Fri Apr 20 17:42:40 UTC 2007


In article <20070420151225.GA31047 at cabal.org.uk>, Peter Corlett 
<abuse at cabal.org.uk> writes
>> In his blog post [1] he did admit to accessing other routers of Be's
>> customers using the backdoor password; this is probably [2] a criminal
>> offence in the UK. I'm not sure I have as much sympathy for him as you do.
>
>> [2] IANAL
>
>It *is* a criminal offence under extensions to the original CMA1990 in the
>Police and Justice Act 2006. The maximum penalty was also increased to two
>years imprisonment.

But the relevant sections of PJA 2006 are not in force yet, nor is there 
any authoritative prediction of when they will be. (If I had to guess, 
I'd say "at least another six months").
-- 
Roland Perry



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