[plug] (off-topic) Law regarding hacking

[Bradley Browne]

I think that the fight for mind space, with regards to " the correct term is
crackers, not hackers " phenomenon, has been lost.  I don't even try and tell
people that a "hacker" is this and a "cracker" is that anymore, people seem to
want the terms to be mutual.  I know that this posting does not contribute much
to the list, and I apologise, but I just thought I would get in before anybody
attempted to correct anyone. (gr?)

Brad

Matt Bruce wrote:

> Paul,
>
> The example you've given appears to be based on the AusCERT Advisory
> AA-93.03, developed by the Commonwealth DPP, in conjunction with the
> Australian Federal Police and AusCERT. Its reason for development is covered
> in the following URL.
>
> "AusCERT Advisory AA-93.03 Suggested Login Banner" under:
>   http://www.auscert.org.au/Information/Advisories/aus_1993.html
>
> I use this text as the pre-login banner (usually /etc/issue and
> /etc/issue.net in Linux variants) for all the servers, firewalls and relays
> that I install. I believe you can easily hack NT's login to provide you with
> a pre-login banner, in which you could include this information. The same is
> probably true of most multi-user and -login operating systems.
>
> You'll most likely find, as is the case with the majority of technological
> crimes here in the wild West, that its effectiveness has yet to be tried in
> a WA court.
>
> However, I hear the WA Police and AFP Computer Crime Units have been
> recently trained in what hacking is, so we may hear of more local cases as
> the script kiddies and 31337 hax0rz get taken down. ;) You may want to
> contact either one of these crime units for information.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Matt Bruce   <matt.bruce at alphawest.com.au>
> Security & Internet Engineer
> AlphaWest - http://www.alphawest.com.au
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Paul Baumgarten [mailto:paul at kcc.wa.edu.au]
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 3:27 PM
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone knew how the law stands in respect
> >to hacking and the like (and if you can quote relevant sections
> >of legislation)?
> >
> >If anyone is able to shed any addition light on how the law
> >stands in this regard it would be much appreciated.