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Is some hacking justified?
Jonathan Bowers, March 6th 2007, 10:24AM
A former judge in California has been sentenced to 27 months in jail on Internet child abuse charges. The ground breaking thing about the case is that some of the evidence was provided by a Canadian hacker who planted a Trojan Horse on an Internet newsgroup visited by paedophiles that was then downloaded by 66-year-old Ronald C Kline.
In following the case, Sophos ran a poll to see whether the public thought that it was justified to use hacking in this circumstance.
The results of 233 votes show that almost two thirds believe that hacking is unacceptable in any circumstance. I wonder however what the results would be if another website ran the poll. We have to remember that people using the Sophos website are likely to have cyber crime on the mind and this could create a negative bias.
In order to catch a thief you often have to think like a thief and even behave like one. So should the laws be black and white when it comes to hacking. Could there be an acceptable use policy?
Tags: cybercrime, internetlaw
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Giles Smith, March 6th 2007, 4:09PM
http://www.harperjames.com
I was walking home the other day and I saw this guy who looked a bit shifty coming out of his house. So I waited for him to leave crept round the rear of his house and kicked in the back door. I had a good rummage round his house, read through some of his bank statements, but I just couldn't find anything wrong. Well I thought to myself, someone around here must be doing something wrong?
After I had finished I went to the house next door, and had a look round in there, but still nothing, well I got through 13 houses that afternoon, before I finally found what I was looking for! On the dining table were some unpaid parking tickets. I immediately phoned the authorities and informed them that I had found someone who wasn't paying their parking fines.
One less fine dodger, the world is a better place!
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Chris Norton, March 6th 2007, 11:53AM
http://www.ukfast.net
If anybody is suggesting it's acceptable for citizens to invade each other's privacy just in case they suspect the other party of being a bit dodgy, well, good heavens... what a horrible thought. Think about all the other innocent people that this Canadian chap was spying on. This is vigilantism coupled with sinister forms of surveillance... brr!