Advice on accessing BBC News
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Advice on accessing BBC News
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#2Ironically, this advice is illegal in the U.K. under the computer misuse act - circumventing measures intended to restrict access to information is a criminal offence, as is providing information on how do do so.
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#3Ironically, this advice is illegal in the U.K. under the computer misuse act - circumventing measures intended to restrict access to information is a criminal offence, as is providing information on how do do so.
Can you please show me the law? Because that would mean that the U.K needs to close GCHQ and any other secret-service maybe even some police-work.
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#4Interestingly, they also work for accessing RT and Sputnik from the EU that are banning them.
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#5Interestingly, they also work for accessing RT and Sputnik from the EU that are banning them.
It's funny that the EU needs censoring to "protect" the public from censored media...that smells really bad to me TBH.
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#6Both sides calling a lack of freedom of press, guess it's only freedom when one sided narrative fits. With the internet it's possible to get around most walls
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#7Ironically, this advice is illegal in the U.K. under the computer misuse act - circumventing measures intended to restrict access to information is a criminal offence, as is providing information on how do do so.
Can you please show me the law? Because that would mean that the U.K needs to close GCHQ and any other secret-service maybe even some police-work.
Many things the agencies do is either illegal or would be illegal for ordinary citizens.
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#8Ironically, this advice is illegal in the U.K. under the computer misuse act - circumventing measures intended to restrict access to information is a criminal offence, as is providing information on how do do so.
Can you please show me the law? Because that would mean that the U.K needs to close GCHQ and any other secret-service maybe even some police-work.
Believe it or not, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are permitted to do things ordinary citizens aren’t, in the course of their work.
As to the relevant bit - section one, paragraph one, subsection a:
>> 1)A person is guilty of an offence if— >> (a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [or to enable any such access to be secured] ;
Re: Advice on accessing BBC News
#9Ironically, this advice is illegal in the U.K. under the computer misuse act - circumventing measures intended to restrict access to information is a criminal offence, as is providing information on how do do so.
My sense is that this is incorrect.
I think the law would prohibit breaking into people's computers, not circumventing internet censorship.
By circumventing internet censorship you're accessing information that its owner wants you to be able to access. You're not breaking into their computer.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you please show me the law? Because that would mean that the U.K needs to close GCHQ and any other secret-service maybe even some police-work.
Believe it or not, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are permitted to do things ordinary citizens aren’t, in the course of their work. As to the relevant bit - section one, paragraph one, subsection a: >> 1)A person is guilty of an offence if— >> (a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [ or to enable any such access to be secured…
I knew you meant that law, and the whole law is about "hacking" INTO computer systems/networks to access private/not-authorized data, not circumvent blocking measurements for accessing public/authorized-by-the-owner-of-the-system data.
>Believe it or not, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are permitted to do things ordinary citizens aren’t
Believe it or not, that's just partially true.