[nycbug-talk] UK bans denial of service attacks

Marc Spitzer mspitzer at gmail.com
Sun Nov 12 16:12:53 EST 2006


that will stop the chriminals yup there is a law now.  It would also
be interesting to see how they define a denial of service attack.  I
remember when HP, I think, defined using nmap as a denial of service
attack.

marc

On 11/12/06, michael <lists at genoverly.net> wrote:
>         That'll stop 'em
>
>         A law was passed last week that makes it an offence to launch a
>         denial of service attack in the UK, punishable by up to ten
>         years in prison.
>
> http://www.theregister.com/2006/11/12/uk_bans_denial_of_service_attacks/
>
>
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