Hi, I suggest you boys join some sort of law list, this has no operational value, please take it offlist. Thanks, Patrick On 27/10/2008, at 10:28 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 22:10 +1300, Russell Sharpe wrote:
"252 Accessing computer system without authorisation"(1) Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years who intentionally accesses, directly or indirectly, any computer system without authorisation, knowing that he or she is not authorised to access that computer system, or being reckless as to whether or not he or she is authorised to access that computer system.
"(2) To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not apply if a person who is authorised to access a computer system accesses that computer system for a purpose other than the one for which that person was given access.
"(3) To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not apply if access to a computer system is gained by a law enforcement agency-
"(a) under the execution of an interception warrantor search warrant; or
"(b) under the authority of any Act or rule of the common law.
That is it.. Did any get any request for authourisation??? Natlib is not a law enforcement agency... But under "(b) under the authority of any Act or rule of the common law.
That's what we need to look for.. Anyone???
Doesn't (2) apply? If it's a public website, everyone has access (is authorised), so they're merely accessing it for a different purpose.
IANAL also :-)
Richard
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