Questions involving the U.K. Computer Misuse Act
The 1990 U.K. Computer Misuse Act is frequently cited in hacking questions. A similar law in the U.S. is the cfaa.
Questions tagged [computer-misuse-act]
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Has anyone been prosecuted for making/using malware?
Has anyone been prosecuted under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 Section 3A for using or making malware in the UK? I have found example in the US, but none for the UK.
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Is Running an Amplified DNS Attack on a Consenting Person Legal?
I wasn't sure whether to put this in the legal or security stack exchange because this will take someone with considerable computer knowledge to answer.
Amyways, I want to try out an amplified DDOS attack using either an NTP server (which I think…
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Is creating an open source github program for a undocumented api from any app/website legal?
Recently I had an idea on creating an app from a few undocumented api i had found.
Let's suppose I created an reddit app with features and customization abilities. Is is illegal? Can I createit and make it open source (available on Github only) ?
Rakesh Chowdhury
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Is it against the Computer Misuse Act to remove client-side input validation?
I recently ran into an issue where the 'Change Password' form for a website allowed me to choose a long password (50+ characters), but the login form had a lower limit of 16 characters.
This means that it was not possible to log in with the password…
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