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Island Life - April/May 2011
LEGAL ISSUES
Terence Willey & Company., Lawyers and
Commissioners for Oaths (incorporating Malcolm
Daniells & Company and The Bembridge Law Practice)
Contact Terence Willey 01983 875859 or Mark Willey
01983 611888. www.terencewilley.co.uk
Are 'hackers' taken
seriously enough?
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As trade, industry and professions strive to
were arrested and Schifreen was found
embrace technology each year there does
guilty on five charges and fined £750.00
not seem to be any decline in the intrusion
and Gold found guilty on four charges
of hacking into the software of computers.
and fined £600.00. Both men appealed
In addition the rate of crime appears to
and were acquitted. In 1988 the House of
be on the increase in respect of theft and
Lords agreed with the acquittal and such
fraud via the computer. In 1985 two Britain’s
judgement lead to the introduction of the
namely Robert Schifreen and Stephen Gold
Computer Misuse Act 1990. The irony
got into British Telecom’s Prestel service
was that Robert Schifreen now works at
with system-manager passwords. They
the University of Brighton and runs an IT
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