Re: Two Articles about What Brits Know (or Don't)...

Brett Paul Dunbar <brett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Finding this took a few minutes googleing.

Thanks.

> It turned out that wasn't why he was arrested.  He had actually
> committed a criminal offence in attempting to gain access to non
> public directories on the server.

> He claimed in court that he had made a donation and then became
> concerned that he'd fallen victim to a phi****ng scam.  To check, he
> added ../../../ to the URL in an attempt to access the site's higher
> directories ...

Was that the sum total of his "offense"?  I've done the same many
times myself.

> On the other hand this is an act passed in 1990 which nearly 18
> years later is still effective at dealing with spammers, virus
> writers, script kiddies and other scammers and vandals.

Maybe they should do that, then.
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