Black boxes in Canada

[Peter Sommer]

Pete Chwon writes about

>R. v. Gold and Schifreen

This was a case under the Forgery and Counterfeiting legislation, not 
deception.  The HoL decided that when you use a false password you are not 
committing an act of forgery.

You can get an idea of the problems of the current state of the law, 
including the issues of deceiving a machine from a Law Commission 
consultation paper:

Go to;
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/library/lib-crim.htm

and then download consultation paper 155



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