[KLUG Members] Hacking a Hacker Legal?

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:34:46 -0500


On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:11:48PM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> IMO this is all a fools' errand, and it promotes lawlessness.

Well, you can break people's stuff, or you can do low-level harassment:
misnamed files, file-sharing hosts that start nice, then tank to a slow
connection 10kB in.... That's perfectly legal.

> > I wonder... Might this apply to spamsters, also?

Hmm.... It might, if we can bounce spam off open relays into spamsters'
mailboxes.

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