Crimes Amendment Bill No 6 Now Law
For those interested. INZ will also put a copy of the Act on its website once this is available. DPF "The Crimes Amendment Bill No 6 has now come into force as The Crimes Amendment Act 2003. This Act, amending the 1961 Crimes Act, may potentially affect many internet users and providers. It has been commonly known as the anti-hacking bill. InternetNZ has done a brief paper on aspects of the Act which may affect internet users and providers. The paper is at http://www.internetnz.net.nz/public/committee-reports/ctte-legal-and-regulat... or http://tinyurl.com/g9vj ISPs may wish to get professional legal advice on their obligations under the Act. If enough ISPs thought it would be useful, InternetNZ could consider getting generic advice for the industry generally."
Is anyone in the know about how "maintaining that Internet" and "Accessing computer system without authorisation" are defined? For example, is collection of billing data included in "maintaining the Internet"? What about collecting "user web page access patterns"? Or, most importantly for us, what about collecting a packet header trace to do analysis that might someday improve the way the Internet operates. And what about "Accessing computer system without authorisation"? Is it now illegal for someone I haven't authorised to send email to my SNMP server? If not, why is it illegal for someone I haven't authorised to access my SSH server? If anyone has a copy of the amendment I'd love to read it. Tony ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony McGregor Mail: T.McGregor(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz Department of Computer Science Phone: +64 7 838 4651 Waikato University Fax: +64 7 858 5095(w) +64 7 825 5047(h) Private Bag 3105 Home: +64 7 825 5040 mobile: (021)313004 Hamilton, New Zealand www: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tonym ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
And what about "Accessing computer system without authorisation"? Is it now illegal for someone I haven't authorised to send email to my SNMP server? If not, why is it illegal for someone I haven't authorised to access my SSH server?
I guess this could be used for stop people in NZ Spamming. "I didn't give you permission to access my SMTP Server and you sent email to me"
If anyone has a copy of the amendment I'd love to read it.
Me too, but it doesn't seem to be yet on knowledge-basket.com yet. (http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpprint/docs/welcome.html) Thanks Craig
The latest copy around seems to be below.... The act: http://www.internetnz.net.nz/issues/crimes-amend-bill-6/ The juicy bits: http://www.internetnz.net.nz/issues/crimes-amend-bill-6/cab6p5.htm#no249 Cheers, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Craig Whitmore [mailto:lennon(a)orcon.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2003 2:38 p.m. To: Tony McGregor Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Crimes Amendment Bill No 6 Now Law
And what about "Accessing computer system without authorisation"? Is it now illegal for someone I haven't authorised to send email to my SNMP server? If not, why is it illegal for someone I haven't authorised to access my SSH server?
I guess this could be used for stop people in NZ Spamming. "I didn't give you permission to access my SMTP Server and you sent email to me"
If anyone has a copy of the amendment I'd love to read it.
Me too, but it doesn't seem to be yet on knowledge-basket.com yet. (http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpprint/docs/welcome.html) Thanks Craig _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog
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