RE:'I think it's both - the underlying question being, under what conditions might someone be entitled to take potentially damaging action against somebody else's computer on a network?' How about None? There are civil remedies and criminal penalties, none of which allow privacy invasions or private property destruction/siezure without due process. ( Risking an analogy: ) Imagine Ben Franklin's reaction if a governmental, or non-governmental, party dropped by to destroy his printing press for allegations that copyrights had been infringed by works he, or a timeshare, or a wayward employee, or a burglar, ran on that printing press. Oh wait... we don't have to... We've allowed Constitutionally questionable governmental property siezures indulging the 'good intentions' of crime-fighting so perhaps booby-Hatch simply sees property destruction as the next step. Dane
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