On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:47:05 +0300, Georgi Guninski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Ballmer made it absolutely clear where his company--arguably the biggest
> target for cybercrime the world over--stands when it comes to hacking, be it
> malicious code-authoring or what some consider to be ethical pr
Ballmer made it absolutely clear where his company--arguably the biggest target for
cybercrime the world over--stands when it comes to hacking, be it malicious
code-authoring oor what some consider to be ethical programming. Ballmer likens these
individuals to criminals who blow up buildings an
At 01:32 PM 10/1/03 -0700, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote:
Reality - the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) likely will not even
make the effort to prosecute computer crimes that cannot be said to have
caused significant (like US$500,000) amounts of damage. It's just not
worth the time and resources
IANAL and I only can reference law in the USA. YMMV.
Once upon a time, hackers were people who wanted to understand how things
worked. They were not criminals. The reason that they were not criminals
was that there were no laws passed that said that what they were doing
was against the law :)
A
IANAL, but I know that the legal system is divided into a criminal
piece and a civil piece. Criminals are those who break criminal law.
Civil proceedings tend to be about business disputes, lawsuits, divorces,
etc, where the court acts like a third party mediator.
cheers,
: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] NINCOMPOOPERY OF MICROSOFT
> This user Bullmur should be carefull with the word "criminal".
>
> Question to the lawyers on the list:
> It is my understanding that "criminal" is someone who breaks
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This user Bullmur should be carefull with the word "criminal".
Question to the lawyers on the
This user Bullmur should be carefull with the word "criminal".
Question to the lawyers on the list:
It is my understanding that "criminal" is someone who breaks the law.
microsoft seem to have been found guilty by a court in the antitrust trial, so they
seem to have broken the law.
Are microsoft
"Hackers are criminals" Most, he notes, release their malicious code
after patches for Microsoft software have been released, meaning that
they are simply reverse engineering to exploit security weaknesses or
holes in software. - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
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