Is this a crime?

venus1978

tandraig wrote: »

Well there you go - wasnt a he - was a she! as apparently the law only applies to males SHE cannot be prosecuted!!!
how long did it take you to make that bit of legislation up?

Its the Computer Misuse Act.

If you look it was taken directly from Wikipedia and they use the term he.

Errata

All the woman has to do is swear blind he gave her his password. Then it's her word against his.

tandraig

oh and wikipedia is the font of all knowledge?

ok - so if that is how the act is termed - I rest my case - there cannot be a prosecution because only males can be prosecuted!

so ladies - you can hack or crack to your hearts content!!! we cant be prosecuted!!!

ooohhhh I feel so much more secure now. lmao - as I said in earlier post - first, you have to be caught!!!

venus1978

its also termed like that on the government website
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/ukpga_19900018_en_1#pb1-l1g1

suited-aces

Errata wrote: »

All the woman has to do is swear blind he gave her his password. Then it's her word against his.

You're encouraging perjury? For shame.

adouglasmhor

Fonz wrote: »

Easy tiger

Given you're getting a little shirty, I'll leave you and your misinterpretation of a really simply concept to yourselves

I can believe you are certified, just surprised it is by Microsoft and not two professionals working in the medical sector.

reehsetin

Errata wrote: »

All the woman has to do is swear blind he gave her his password. Then it's her word against his.

even if he did give her his password she was not authorised to delete all of his emails, act one -logging on
act two - deleting the emails
even if act one was authorised act two wasn't
e.g. there was a case where police officers were prosecuated using the act because although they were authorised to log on and use their systems they were not authorised to do searches etc outside of their job role.
The provision of the act is "any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer"

Bonnie2009

I know it's an old thread but I wanted to join in!

Hotmail don't keep a backup of anyone's deleted emails on their server so in this case it would be difficult for him to prove that the emails actually existed.

It's obvious that she's broken the Computer Misuse Act, but he'd find it impossible to prove the emails were there in the first place, never mind that she deleted them.

If she had (as others suggested they would) sent the emails to everyone he knew, then it would be much easier to prosecute her as the email address she sent them from can tell Hotmail where the account was created - if they were created at her address, it would be difficult for her to prove she hadn't sent them, and so that she had gone onto his email address without authorisation.

I think it's a gross invasion of privacy, myself. If someone doesn't want to be with you, walk away with your head held high, don't go reading things that are nothing to do with you.

mikey72

Old thread, but what happened?
Did he report it, did she lie through her teeth to the police about it?
She she go on to break all his car windows with a baseball bat and pour paint stripper on it?
What happened??????

Primrose

I somehow doubt that he will have the balls to walk into a police station and admit to somebody on the duty desks that he'd been caught with his trousers unzipped and a female has got the better of him . When he calms down he'll realise that he will have made himself a complete laughing stock. Male pride and all that .........!