On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br 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@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
