, The Register 2005-10-11
Last week Daniel Cuthbert was convicted of breaking the Computer Misuse Act, fined £400, and ordered to pay £600 in costs. As an IT security consultant, it will be a long time before Cuthbert's reputation is restored and it is possible he will never work in the industry again.
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Does this mean if I go to Microsoft.com and put in some little dots and a backslash I could lose my job, my career, pay numerous fines and go to jail!?
The guy did not even gain access... what is funny to me is that the IDS administrators even found this so tempting of a signature hit that they had to persue it.
I am also an IDS administrator and something like this would roll off the IDS and into the "watch" pile at best along with a quote of "damn kids".
It will be interesting to watch this play out.
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