Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 03:28:02 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE! Message-ID: <20050507012802.GI3564@Alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <1047713602.20050507030814@wanadoo.fr> References: <20050506103934.10FA34BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050506105433.GA84877@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <2410174336.20050506130648@wanadoo.fr> <73834c0c2b28ff7e6a7cb7542d1e453e@chrononomicon.com> <1345420086.20050506204229@wanadoo.fr> <20050507010013.GF3564@Alex.lan> <1047713602.20050507030814@wanadoo.fr>
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On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:08:14AM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Alex de Kruijff writes: > > > In my country forcing you way in to a computer system is a criminal act. > > It can be compared to breaking in to a house. > > It is in most countries. However, persons prosecuted for such crimes > have mounted successful defenses based on the fact that they were never > explicitly told that the systems they penetrated were legally accessible > only to authorized users. Thus, careful sysadmins today explicitly > display a message at login telling the user that only authorized users > are permitted to access the system. Many operating systems even make > special provisions for this. Where these persons prosecuted lately? Because in the early days lot of computer laws didn't exist. This made it easier to have a defence agains such lawsuites. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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