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Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Jan 22 2004 05:25PM
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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Jan 24 2004 05:16AM
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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Jan 23 2004 06:48PM
Daniel Capo tco net br (2 replies)

Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Jan 29 2004 04:09PM
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RE: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Feb 03 2004 04:17PM
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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Feb 03 2004 02:56PM
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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Feb 03 2004 08:06PM
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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Feb 03 2004 04:13PM
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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Feb 04 2004 04:39PM
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Re: [security] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Feb 03 2004 04:02AM
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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Jan 24 2004 07:11PM
Dinesh Nair (dinesh alphaque com) (1 replies)

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 Daniel.Capo (at) tco.net (dot) br [email concealed] wrote:

> AFAIK, "hacking" is legally defined in the USA as being unauthorized
> access to computer resources. It doesn't matter if the resource was
> adequately protected (or protected at all) in first place or not. If you
> were not given permission to make use of that resource, you are
> criminally liable.

which begs the question, unless it was explicitly labelled as such, how
would the accessor know that he was committing unauthorized access ?

this is quite similar to sites say, accidentally exporting windows or nfs
shares out to the internet. a query of the server will return a mount
request legitimate.

Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh (at) alphaque (dot) com [email concealed] (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/
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