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UK Asks High Court To Review Whether Denial Of Service Attacks Are Legal
from the why-not-just-change-the-law? dept
Back in November we wrote about a court finding saying that denial of service attacks in the UK do not violate that country's Computer Misuse Act because a DoS attack doesn't involve "unauthorized access." We figured that this would make politicians leap into action and change the law, but that doesn't seem to be happening just yet. Instead, the Crown Prosecution Service is looking to appeal the judge's interpretation of the law, and ask the High Court to simply say that the CMA does cover denial of service attacks, even if it doesn't actually appear to from the text of the law.
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DDOS the High Court!
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Other laws?
I don't know much about law, but wouldn't there be something more generic in place that makes it illegal to intentionally cause financial loss?
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Should I not be allowed to open a business next to yours, provide better service, and steal all your customers? It is intentional, and it would certainly cause you to have a financial loss.
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