—(1) A person is guilty of an offence if— (a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to computer secure access to any program or data held in any computer; .
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the
function that that is the case
so its pretty clear, if you make a computer do something which may ultimately lead to gaining unauthorised access- and it is your intention that doing so may lead to unauthorised access then....you've just broken the law (in the uk). note you dont actually have to gain unauthorised access you just have make the computer perform and action and have the intent of gaining unauthorised access.
so if you've performed the action of coming on hackernews in your browser with the intent finding a way to gain unauthorised access, guess what? youve just broken the law!
someone call the cops
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so if you've performed the action of coming on hackernews in your browser with the intent finding a way to gain unauthorised access, guess what? youve just broken the law! someone call the cops