Lee and I worked together right after it happened for a local (dubai)
it support company, and we still remain friends.
>From what I remember - Lee never did any 'Jail time' as there were no
laws he had broken save for illegal usage of someone elses property.
He was fined 5000 dhs.
Etisalat sued him for 10 million dhs ina civil suit, and he counter
sued for character assassination. The police confirmed that Lee could
not have done any of what Etisalat had claimed he had done based on
the tools and apps running on his laptop at the time. Lee and Etisalat
settled out of court.
Lee still resides in the UAE.
Dan
On 1/13/08, Michael Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess laws are here more of a "let's put a maximum penalty against it"
> approach. This Lee Ashurst guy, did he hack into Etisalat, or not? He
> went to jail anyhow.
>
> I see this as unhandled exceptions, when a president (like bush now)
> comes over, the country goes bezerk.. doesn't know what to do (security,
> traffic, ...) and declare a holiday then.
>
> In C+, this would be:
>
> try {
> hosting_a_president();
> } catch(e)
> {
> // ermmm...
> // hmmm...
> throw(holiday);
> exit(1);
> }
>
>
> Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12/01/2008, dandantheitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:dandantheitman%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > I am sure there a set of ever growing cyber laws - and they have been
> > > in place since Lee Ashurst decided to Hack into Etisalat.
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > Hey Dan, sorry about trying to hijack the thread but were you in Dubai
> > when this incident occurred? How was it like back then? Just curious
> > to know!
> >
> > Sarfaraz
> --
> Michael Hendrickx
> http://code.ae
>
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