On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:42, Crispin Cowan wrote: > Which brings us back to the question of Joe's intent. There exist real > scenarios in which someone like Joe explicitly intends to grant > wide-open access, and the ISP's TOS permit exactly that. But what is the > legal status of a war driver if they don't actually know that to be the > case? Also, there is a big difference between scanning for the existence of a system and using it. It would be like walking past your neighbor's house, noticing that they get they paper and being accused of stealing it because you looked at the headline. -- 'This message has not been made with the consent or cooperation of the Federal Board of Regulations (F.B.R.) or the Central Enquires Agency (C.E.A.). Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental, and so forth and so on.
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