On 15/01/13 13:24, Seb Bacon wrote: > On 15 January 2013 12:40, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2013/1/15 Anthony Cartmell <[email protected]> >>>> It shows the hostility the courts have to hacking in general. Even >>>> reduced >>>> on appeal the starting point (before allowance for the early guilty plea) >>>> was 6 months in prison. >>> >>> That's amazing. You can kill someone with a motor vehicle and normally >>> expect to be punished with a small fine and perhaps a short driving ban, if >>> anything. >> >> Joe Ury (of Bailii) has just emailed me that he has put the decision up: >> >> http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2012/973.html > Thanks for highlighting the hostility of the courts towards hacking, > Francis -- I found some of the judgements referred to there > extraordinary. Someone deleting some data from websites in revenge for > being sacked to "cause inconvenience" (no revenue loss) getting 9 > months! > > Seb
Remind me again of the result of the criminal case brought against Sony and First 4 Internet and their directors for putting a rootkit on people's computers. What ?? Their wasn't one ?? Over such a blatant transgression of the Act ?? How strange. Mike _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
