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by Mike Masnick




If You Want To Email-Bomb Your Ex-Employer In The UK, You Should Do It Soon

from the before-it's-illegal-and-all dept

Apparently a UK teenager who email-bombed his ex-employer has been cleared of all charges, after it turns out that he didn't actually break the law he was charged under. Yup, it turns out that under the UK's Computer Misuse Act, denial of service attacks aren't really a crime -- something politicians are hoping to change. So, the kid only needed to prove that his email bomb wasn't "unauthorized access" and he gets off free.

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  1. May 20th, 2006 @ 5:40am
    by becca

    its stupid to be convicted of something so small obviously the authorities can't deal with real crimes

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  2. Aug 24th, 2006 @ 9:54am

    haha

    by Bojan

    Haha... no one can E-mail bomb my account. You geeks are such a bunch of losers.

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  3. Sep 25th, 2006 @ 9:27am

    Re: haha

    by Anonymous Coward

    Really? sounds like you know a lots of E-mail bomb then, so do you know how to e-mail bomb people..cos i want to...

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  4. Jan 16th, 2007 @ 1:59am

    Re: Re: haha

    by Anonymous Coward

    http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/mail-bomb.html

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  5. Jan 8th, 2008 @ 11:09am

    So what, well done

    by Rob

    TBH I think the kid should walk so what he sent a few email to some dumb ass corp, big deal. Get a life. The internet is here for fun not just corporate ass holes!

    I think mail bombs are cool and believe each week 500,000 people should all mail bomb someone to show our internet freedom. Besides the internet wouldn't be here if we all switched off!

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  6. Jan 8th, 2008 @ 11:14am

    DOS actack

    by Rob

    UK Government - the police farce.

    Did anyone get my joke!

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  7. Jan 8th, 2008 @ 11:28am

    Re: DOS actack

    by Anonymous Coward

    OOO I forget, the police who arrested him didn't get christmas turkey ;( there bonus was taken as they're required to screw over at least one teenager a year.

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  8. Jun 24th, 2008 @ 2:27am

    Re: haha

    by elmi

    elmar.maier-ho@t-online.de

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  9. Jul 1st, 2008 @ 8:05am

    Re: haha

    by Anonymous Coward

    whats ur e-mail address

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  10. Jul 29th, 2008 @ 4:12pm

    Lottery scam

    by robert

    If you reply to this guy's email, he'll give you a £850,000 lottery prize or so his email says.

    robert.hache6@gmail.com

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  11. Sep 7th, 2008 @ 10:38pm
    by Leeanne Jaud

    Lets see you do it then...

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  12. Sep 29th, 2008 @ 3:13pm

    Re:

    by Brian

    Photos of Leeanne Jaud http://codymichaels.pictiger.com/images/16925732/

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  13. Sep 29th, 2008 @ 5:02pm

    Re: Re:

    by Rob

    Who the hell is Leeanne Jaud? Looks like one of those cheap bars where fat ugly chicks serve you in knickers and bras. Wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole.

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  14. Sep 29th, 2008 @ 5:05pm
    by Rob

    this one is hilarious.
    http://codymichaels.pictiger.com/images/16925695/

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  15. Sep 29th, 2008 @ 8:50pm

    Leeanne Jaud

    by elmi

    I thought Leeanne Jaud was an actress but this chick doesnt look like her, I think she was the hot one in the new series of battlestar gallictica but this one in the photos is just some hag working in a tacky bar in Darwin apparently. Pretty gross. Found these as well:

    http://flickcabin.com/public/view/5598

    http://flickcabin.com/public/view/5599

    http:// flickcabin.com/public/view/5600

    http://flickcabin.com/public/view/5601

    http://flickcabin.com/p ublic/view/5602

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  16. Sep 29th, 2008 @ 11:18pm

    Leeanne Jaud

    by Rob

    For some reason those links dont work elmi.
    I did find a couple of her that did, I have had trouble with flickcabin before, they dont like too much there:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/30949446@N06/2898627794/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/3094 9446@N06/2897783383/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/30949446@N06/2897784363/

    http://www.flickr.c om/photos/30949446@N06/2898626868/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/30949446@N06/2897783771/

    Why you would want them I have no idea, she looks like absolute trash.

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  17. Sep 30th, 2008 @ 6:30am

    Re: Leeanne Jaud

    by two cents worth

    I think Leeanne Jaud was in the stargate series, not the battlestar galactica series but I cant remember which charatcer she played. I think these pictures are not her or they might be before she was acting?

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  18. Sep 30th, 2008 @ 7:02am

    Re: Re: Leeanne Jaud

    by Rob

    the only actress I can think of is Janyse Jaud and she looks a bit like her, Janyse Jauds nose is smaller but she could have had a nose job. http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Janyse_Jaud

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  19. Sep 30th, 2008 @ 5:56pm

    Leeanne Jaud

    by denise

    Janyse Jaud was in Andromeda, not stargate.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213327/fullcredits

    Leeanne Jaud does look a bit like her but I think this is just some nobody that works in one of those touch and grab bars.
    http://leeannejaud.pictiger.com/images/16939956/

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  20. Oct 1st, 2008 @ 4:45am
    by Taylor

    Against chance we found each other and we knew
    I saw your face and felt your lips every moment we were apart
    I was complete when I was close to you
    I touched your hair, your skin, while you lay by my side
    Hating sleep for it took me away from you
    Hating sleep now for I dream of you and wake alone
    Informing myself each new morning that you are gone
    Thoughts of you cause my chest to explode
    The blood tainting all those around me before I force it back and under control
    A wound that wont seal and must be consciously stemmed
    It meant everything to me and therefor I have lost everything

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  21. Oct 1st, 2008 @ 8:47pm
    by Chris

    that Leeanne Jaud is an ugly fat cheap whore

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  22. Oct 2nd, 2008 @ 6:03am
    by mindfield

    Leeanne Jaud is a canadian actress, I dont rekon thats her in the photo, some other lady.

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  23. Oct 4th, 2008 @ 11:54pm

    Leeanne Jaud

    by Karmen Holmes

    The Leeanne Jaud in those photos is obviously a prostitute.

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  24. Oct 16th, 2008 @ 7:59pm

    Leeanne Jaud

    by Rob

    A photo of Leeanne Jaud I found: http://www.27bslash6.com/images/Leeanne_Jaud_Beach_04.jpg

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  25. Oct 16th, 2008 @ 8:02pm

    Re: Leeanne Jaud

    by Rob

    There are lots of photos of Leeanne Jaud at http://www.27bslash6.com/photos_2008_beach.html

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

  26. Oct 16th, 2008 @ 8:04pm

    Leeanne Jaud

    by Rob

    More photos of Leeanne Jaud http://www.27bslash6.com/photos_leeanne_jaud.html

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  27. Oct 16th, 2008 @ 8:06pm

    Leeanne Jaud

    by Rob

    Leeanne Jaud is actually pretty ugly in my opinion. http://www.27bslash6.com/images/Leeanne_Jaud_Beach_03.jpg

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  28. Oct 16th, 2008 @ 10:55pm

    Re: Leeanne Jaud

    by Mike

    Fuck Leeanne Jaud is ugly! Looks like an ugly guys face stuck on a flabby middle aged womans body. Check this one out I found at
    http://www.27bslash6.com/images/Leeanne_Jaud_Beach_04.jpg

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  29. Dec 14th, 2008 @ 5:58pm
    by Anonymous Coward

    jenniegielen@hotmail.com

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  30. Jan 7th, 2009 @ 12:25am

    Re:

    by T. Love

    would be pretty sick if someone did this to natasha69@telus.blackberry.net

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  31. Jan 24th, 2009 @ 6:47pm

    bomb me

    by Nick

    I am trying to see how many spam emails I can get in a day, sign me up for anything and everything drnickmiller@yahoo.com

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  32. Feb 2nd, 2009 @ 5:33am

    email me see if msn is as good as it say

    by linda

    email me see if msn is as good as it say
    b.tch@hotmail.co.uk
    linda.smith.63@hotmail.co.uk

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  33. Feb 18th, 2009 @ 7:45pm

    Re: haha

    by sdsd

    gimmie ur email and let me try! ;)

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  34. Mar 5th, 2009 @ 2:30pm

    This doesn't work!

    by SerialSingleMum

    If it did it would work on heather157@hotmail.co.uk
    This site is immune to spamspiders!

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  35. Apr 9th, 2009 @ 1:56am

    E-mail me

    by Gaylord

    If anyone want to bomb me do it ive got an awsome spam blocker. Your all fucked.

    a.kitin@hertz.ru
    y.volosnikov@hertz.ru

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  36. May 31st, 2009 @ 9:22am

    Screw you hackers!

    Yeah I got bombed once so I got my site hack proofed by a guy that works for a gov. hack security team. I'd like to see you try it again you scum bag hackers!!

    Bomb me if you got the balls!
    LOL

    sgazzari@curetoothdecayforlife.com
    sgazzari@gmail.com

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  37. Aug 22nd, 2009 @ 8:53am

    Old news

    by Anonymous Coward

    Nobody gets mail bombed any more, it is old news

    coltondirks@gmail.com

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  38. Oct 16th, 2009 @ 8:03am

    Old news..

    by Steve

    Indeed, mail bombing is just silly talk by teenage hackers!It doesn't exist.
    dan.topwithens@btinternet.com

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  39. Oct 16th, 2009 @ 8:07am

    hackers are losers!

    by Dan

    Indeed Steve, no one has ever managed to disable my website, or hack into my mail - a few simple precautions stop these idiots!!
    Go ahead and try it if you think you're any good!

    dan@food-glorious-food.co.uk

    http://food-glorious-food.co.uk/

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