[KLUG Members] Hacking a Hacker Legal?

[Russell Dillenburg]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Peter Buxton wrote:

> 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.
> 

what if a burgler breaks into your house?  Is it legal for you to shoot 
him?  Is that not trespassing?

But wait.... If the hacker hacks you and then you hack the hacker doesn't 
that mean you are trespassing on the hackers computer?  

 > > > 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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