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Can you please show me the law? Because that would mean that the U.K needs to close GCHQ and any other secret-service maybe even some police-work.
by nix23 5y ago
Can you please show me the law? Because that would mean that the U.K needs to close GCHQ and any other secret-service maybe even some police-work.
- madaxe_again 5y agoBelieve it or not, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are permitted to do things ordinary citizens aren’t, in the course of their work. As to the relevant bit - section one, paragraph one, subsection a: >> 1)A person is guilty of an offence if— >> (a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [or to enable any such access to be secured] ; https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1
- nix23 5y agoI knew you meant that law, and the whole law is about "hacking" INTO computer systems/networks to access private/not-authorized data, not circumvent blocking measurements for accessing public/authorized-by-the-owner-of-the-system data. >Believe it or not, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are permitted to do things ordinary citizens aren’t Believe it or not, that's just partially true.
- jstanley 5y agoThat's not the whole thing. See also subsection b: > (b)the access he intends to secure [F2, or to enable to be secured,] is unauthorised If you're trying to access a news website it's pretty likely that your access is authorised. Without subsection b, literally every use of a computer is computer misuse.
- usr1106 5y agoMany things the agencies do is either illegal or would be illegal for ordinary citizens.