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Re: UK ISP threatens security researcher

  • From: Roland Perry
  • Date: Fri Apr 20 13:48:35 2007


In article <[email protected]>, Peter Corlett <[email protected]> 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").
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Roland Perry