Here we go again - ISP DPI, but is it interception?

[Chris Edwards]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Nicholas Bohm wrote:

| Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
| > Charles Lindsey said:
| >   
| >> Once they have a list of addresses of sites, they they are perfectly  
| >> entitled to visit those sites (as is anybody else) and to probe them for  
| >> malware.
| >>     
| >
| > No they aren't. You may recall that, a couple of years ago, someone was
| > convicted of computer misuse because he probed a site for malware - to be
| > precise, he put "/.." on an URL.
| 
| Useful point: do you have a reference?

I suspect Clive's refering to the case involving Daniel Cuthbert 

aka the "Tsunami Hacker"
 
 http://www.pmsommer.com/CLCMA1205.pdf