Turns Out Email Bombing Your Old Boss In The UK Will Get You A Slap On The Wrist
from the stay-home dept
A year ago, we pointed to the case of a teenager in the UK, who email-bombed his ex-employer, taking down the company's servers. The interesting part was that the court let him go, noting that it didn't appear that denial of service-type attacks were actually illegal under the law. This created a bit of a frenzy over in the UK, with higher courts being asked to review the case and politicians rushing frantically to change the law, perhaps going too far in the process. Back in May, the higher court felt that the lower one was wrong and that such attacks actually were illegal, so the lower court needed to revisit its original decision. They've done so today, and it becomes clear that they still don't think email-bombing is that big of a deal. The teen has been sentenced to two months of a curfew, which the judge made sure was timed so it wouldn't interfere with his work, and would end right before he went off to school. Basically, the kid needs to be at home after 12:30am each day -- which doesn't seem particularly onerous.
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This is news because why?
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As the article said, the courts changed the ruling and said it is illegal.
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But hey, if its legal with curfew as the only punishment right now, there should be a contest as to whom can cause the most damage, scaring the hell out of the courts and creating laws that are as screwed up as possible.
And I think he has to be home before 12:30am, not after :p
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Sentence is irrelevant
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What's the law in the US?
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Great
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Looks like I am going to have to stop being a whiny brat and crashing every server of company that displeases me.
I should mailbomb the politicians who made this silly law and turned the UK in to a law state.
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Its common sense not to allow this, or our supermarkets would be shutdown by every hacker who couldn't get what we wanted for free.
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Ramblings
We do not have a justice system. We have a legal system. It doesn't matter if it's right, it matters if it's legal. If there were no law at the time of the event then right or wrong, he is innocent of any crime.
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yeah..
you get your groceries from a poorly configured business server?
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