U.K. outlaws denial-of-service attacks | CNET News.com
Some hackers might be spending a decade in jail, compliments of Her Majesty's Public Servants.
U.K. outlaws denial-of-service attacks | CNET News.com:
The new law puts teeth into enforcement and makes enforcement relevant/applicable to those who not merely steal data from computers but disable them or block legitmate access to them.
Earlier this year, a ring of international spammers attacked computers of people who were trying to execute their American - and most would say God-given - right to "opt-out" of receiving spam.
Well, today if they did that to computers of people living in the UK - they can find themselves spending 10 years behind bars.
Maybe the end of the spam torrent has finally got at least one nail in its coffin.
God only knows that the US CAN-SPAM has not put an end to it. If anything, it seems like the volumne of spam went up since that law was passed. Perhaps the clause in it barring the victims of spam from sueing the spammers is significantly to blame.
In the UK, spammers who interfere with the access of people to a computer are going to be in for a rough time.
U.K. outlaws denial-of-service attacks | CNET News.com:
Among the provisions of the Police and Justice Bill 2006, which gained Royal Assent on Wednesday, is a clause that makes it an offense to impair the operation of any computer system. Other clauses prohibit preventing or hindering access to a program or data held on a computer, or impairing the operation of any program or data held on a computer.
The maximum penalty for such cybercrimes has also been increased from 5 years to 10 years.
The new law puts teeth into enforcement and makes enforcement relevant/applicable to those who not merely steal data from computers but disable them or block legitmate access to them.
Earlier this year, a ring of international spammers attacked computers of people who were trying to execute their American - and most would say God-given - right to "opt-out" of receiving spam.
Well, today if they did that to computers of people living in the UK - they can find themselves spending 10 years behind bars.
Maybe the end of the spam torrent has finally got at least one nail in its coffin.
God only knows that the US CAN-SPAM has not put an end to it. If anything, it seems like the volumne of spam went up since that law was passed. Perhaps the clause in it barring the victims of spam from sueing the spammers is significantly to blame.
In the UK, spammers who interfere with the access of people to a computer are going to be in for a rough time.
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