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

[Nicholas Bohm]

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?

Nicholas
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