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> given the intentions Exactly. If I just nilly willy connect to your server, try a password and it works and I immediately disconnect, will that get me in tro
by iforgotpassword 2y ago
> given the intentions
Exactly. If I just nilly willy connect to your server, try a password and it works and I immediately disconnect, will that get me in trouble in the UK? That would be worrying.
- chx 2y ago1. mens rea probably applies 2. But if you make a stab at shoplifting and you are successful and give back the item, did you break the law? I am not a lawyer I am just asking.
- KomoD 2y ago> But if you make a stab at shoplifting and you are successful and give back the item, did you break the law? Well, yeah?
- wizzwizz4 2y agoThe Theft Act 1968 defines theft as dishonest appropriation of “property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it” (and then waxes lyrical about what, exactly, that means: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/crossheading/definition-of-theft https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/crossheading/de...). Just going by that law, I would say "it depends".
- chgs 2y agoTechnically yes. You were trying to get unauthorised access to a server But the law is never black and white. Programmers think the law is some code to run. It’s not.