Reply From: Anton J Aylward <antonat_private> > But not all hacks - or are these cracks? - are considered juvenile. > Brawn refers to recent attacks on government sites in Indonesia, > staged purely to promote the cause of civil rights. > > "Three or four weeks ago there was an attack in response to the > nuclear tests in India. The research site was hacked ... it was a > protest," he says. Let me see, this guy is claiming, well, if you were cut him up on the highway its OK for him to take your car, after all its not theft, its just joyriding, denying you the use of your own property as a protest to you behaving in a manner he disagrees with. Yes, but if the CIA were to hack another government's site would this be considered in the same light? Do individual have special privilege in the law that corporate bodies or governmental organizations don't. What would be a lawyer's take on this? /anton -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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