Complexities in criminalising denial of service attacks
February 15th, 2006 at 15:06 UTC by Richard Clayton
Last autumn I wrote a background paper on “Complexities in criminalising denial of service attacks” for the Internet Crime Forum (ICF) Legal subgroup. The idea was to give the lawyers some understanding of what DoS and DDoS attacks were all about, and how it can be hard to pin down concepts such as authorisation when one looks at how we use Internet resources today.
The Home Office has now brought forward the Police and Justice Bill, which contains amendments to Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to deal (they hope) with denial-of-service attacks. Thus events have overtaken the document – so there is little value in progressing the document through the ICF procedures needed to make it an Official Publication. Hence I’ve made it available on my own website, so as to provide a background resource to those considering whether the Home Office have got it right!
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1. .$author. | February 17th, 2006 at 12:09 UTC
[...] Ikke desto mindre synes jeg at den nye blog som bl.a. Ross Anderson udgiver indlæg på viser sig interessant (jeg har tidligere omtalt bloggen). Der er stor aktivitet på bloggen og indlæggende synes underbyggede og interessante. Et indlæg som jeg lige vil fokusere læseren (læserne) hen på, handler om retstilstanden ved DoS og DDoS angreb. DoS og DDoS angeb går kort ud på, at lamme en anden service ved at sende mange forespørgsler og ved DDoS benyttes en række computere til samtidig at sende disse forspørgsler. [...]
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