Selasa, 09 Maret 2004

Computer Safety -- A Penetrating Analysis

’s friend Gadi Oron reports: "In a determination delivered concluding week, the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court cleared of all charges an Israeli defendant of an own to penetrate the website of the Israeli undercover service scheme Mossad. The Mossad website (http://www.mohr.gov.il) invites individuals who are interested inwards working amongst Mossad to fill upward inwards an online application form. According to the criminal accuse filed against him, the defendant tried unlawfully to penetrate the Mossad website only failed to produce so. The defendant maintained that his intention was exclusively to consummate the online application form. However, he suspected that the site was non fully secure and, to withdraw whatever doubt, he sought to verify the score of safety past times a using unproblematic in addition to pop plan that performs safety failure checks. Noting that the Israeli Computers Act 1995 supply an unsatisfactory Definition to the term ‘penetration of a computer’, the courtroom distinguished betwixt unlawful penetration in addition to a mere own to verify the safety score of a website. The latter, the courtroom held, is non to last regarded every bit a offense of unlawful penetration nether the Israeli Computers Act if it is done independently in addition to non every bit a preliminary phase earlier an actual harmful penetration. The defendant was able to convince the courtroom that he had no persuasion how to penetrate computers in addition to no intention of penetrating the Mossad site. The fact that almost all of the prosecution show was made available to the prosecution past times the generosity of the accused, who fully cooperated amongst his interrogators, supported his acquittal".

More on Mossad here
Other safety organisations: CIA, MI5, MI6 and KGB
Security humour here and here

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