Oh I would never think of condoning hacking activities. Why that would be illegal. Naturally, I would only encourage people to *ponder* the joy of seeing perverts log on to their kiddy porn sites only to be greeted by page after page of kitten photos or better still - people in handcuffs. Andrew Plato > -----Original Message----- > From: Crispin Cowan [mailto:crispin@private] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:31 PM > To: Andrew Plato > Cc: Rich Rohrich; Crime List > Subject: Re: CRIME SPAM promoting illegal activity > > > Andrew Plato wrote: > > >Personally, the best way to deal with these sick-o types is to hack > >their sites and delete their content. If you're going to > practice your > >hacking skills, where better than some revolting child porn site? > > > While I agree with the sentiment, there are problems. Detestible as > child abuse is, vigilante hacking of such sites is not > legeal. You could > find yourself in legal trouble for doing such a thing. > > I'm less sure of this part, but I believe there are also > legal problems > with advocating hacking someone's site. Andrew did not > advocate hacking > any *specific* site above, so I think that's clean, but if you go out > and publicly invite l33t hax0rs to hack a particular site, I > think that > is conspiracy. > > Caveat: I'm not a lawyer, nor am I a cop. Perhaps some of the > more legal > folks on the list could comment on what is and is not legal. > > Crispin > > -- > Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. > Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ > Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org > Available for purchase: > http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.htm> l > > Just say ".Nyet" > >
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