>OSLO, Norway, Jan. 13 -- Norway could become a haven for hackers after
>its Supreme Court ruled that trying to break into a computer over the
>Internet is not a crime until the system is actually breached, experts
>said Wednesday.
This is typical sloppy, overhyped, exaggerated, uninformed popular-press rubbish. The
ruling simply held that it is not a crime to conduct a port scan. It didn't say that
exploiting vulnerabilities is ok. In my opinion, there's a world of difference between
scanning for open ports, and trying to exploit a vulnerable service. The ruling did
NOT indicate that attacking a machine is permissible as long as you don't succeed, as
this article seems to suggest.
Secondly, this is not a new story. HNN (www.hackernews.com) reported this story
several weeks ago. Please understand, I'm not flaming the original poster, I just wish
the popular press would make more of an effort to get the facts right, and spend less
time exploiting the popular fear of "hackers."
Daniel Bell
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