Computer Misuse (Amendement) Bill

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From: Pete Chown <Pete.Chown@skygate.co.uk>

> Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> > Sure. Fetching a page from a webserver causes a degradation of
> > performance. Duh. So does sending email. We are all about to be
> > criminals.
> 
> But those things are all with the consent of the machine's owner,
> surely?

No.  2 of my web pages explain the scope of the consent I grant to
the public-facing part of my computers and there are plenty of
people ignoring this.  That includes the owner of 61.33.65.147
who at 1021204702 sent me 503785 bytes of junk in a single request
to port 80 ("d4 b4 04 08 23" repeated many times).

http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk (near the end of the page)

http://notatla.demon.co.uk  (Only available when I'm connected.  Although
I give no consent for connecting to port 80 I won't complain about a single
request for the root document or for robots.txt.)

It seems to me that some clear law could be made made involving the
spamming of honeypots - no doubt that that is unsolicited.  Then there's
the pretence of a reply to some previous request, or that the sender
knows you.

And how does bandwidth consumption fit in - or is the network the computer ?