Computer Misuse (Amendement) Bill

[Ken Brown]

ukcrypto@locofungus.org wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 May 2002, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Peter Sommer writes ("Computer Misuse (Amendement) Bill"):
> > ...
> >   (2) A person is guilty of the offence in subsection (1)(a) even if
> >       the act was not intended to cause such an effect, provided that
> >       a reasonable person could have anticipated that the act would
> >       have caused such an effect.
> 
> And so people who install IIS and don't patch it will now be committing
> an offence.
> 
> Where do I report them all to? :-)


Widely interpreted, people who ride bicycles slowly in front of cars
with computer fuel management systems, thus forcing them to travel at an
inefficient (though safe) speed, might be committing an offence :-)

And what about electricity companies that allow surges on their lines?

Ken