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Believe 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 releva
by madaxe_again 5y ago
Believe 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.