[KLUG Members] Hacking a Hacker Legal?

[Greg Mason]

in the case of burgler breaks in, you have the right to use deadly 
force to protect yourself, your family and your property.

so, what if you killed their computer? I mean after all, in "real" 
life, you could disable their car if they were chasing you, right?

but, it's not legal to chase after the burglar and shoot them at their 
home, is it?

how does it translate into the digital realm?

-Greg

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 02:58  AM, Russell Dillenburg wrote:

> 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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