2009/8/7 Vic Morgan <[email protected]>: > It would appear the Liam123 has been acting illegally under section 3 of > the Misuse of Computers Act 1990. This should be reported to the Police. > Even if it's not worth a prosecution the Police will know how best to > curtail Liam123's activities. Just because OSM-ers' contributions are > free doesn't mean that the accumulated data has no value. A company with > equivalent assets would act to protect its assets. So should we. >
Seriously, we all love our beautiful maps and data, but reporting this guy for some relatively minor fiddling is completely out of proportion. His fiddling has been removed, his account is been watched like a hawk and once the his case has gone through procedure [1] his access will likely be revoked. 1: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism / Grant _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
