UK: Call for Reform of Denial of Service Law
Tom Harris MP yesterday called on fellow MPs to support his proposals to update the Computer Misuse Act, in the wake of a failed attempt to prosecute a teenager over an alleged denial of service attack on his former employer.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was cleared earlier this month after District Judge Kenneth Grant agreed with defence lawyers that even if the teenager had sent an alleged five million emails to his former boss – something that was not confirmed in court – no offence had been committed.
This was because the Act, which was drafted in 1990, before the World Wide Web existed, does not contain a specific offence dealing with denial of service (DoS) attacks.
posted by Fergie @ 11/18/2005 07:11:00 AM
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