BBC 'vague' reporting again!

[Wendy M. Grossman]

Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> 2008/12/1 Peter Sommer <peter@pmsommer.com <mailto:peter@pmsommer.com>>
> 
>     A few years ago Encase introduced a new product for deployment
>     across corporate networks and which allowed all the facilities of
>     the "local" product but remotely.  To make this work each computer
>     that was to be subjected to remote inspection needed to have a
>     "servelet" program installed.
> 
> 
> LiveWire from WetStone claims to do the same thing without requiring 
> dedicated software on the target machine; it just requires administrator 
> access.  See https://www.wetstonetech.com/cgi/shop.cgi?view,14 for details.
> 
> The vast majority of the home installs of Windows I have encountered 
> have had no passwords set for the admin account.  For obvious reasons, 
> WetStone are a bit vague on the exact method used to connect but it's 
> fairly safe to assume that a significant proportion of the people who 
> have a machine without Admin passwords will also not have a correctly 
> configured firewall.
> 
> Ben

Wouldn't using something like this to access people's computers fall 
afoul of the Computer Misuse Act?

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