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Bafflement over Tory MP's admission she hacked Harriet Harman's website
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Apr 09, 2018 06:58pm |
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| Author | Alex Hern |
| News Date | Monday, April 9, 2018 04:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former hacktivists have reacted with bafflement after the Conservative MP Kemi Badenoch admitted that she hacked Harriet Harman’s website in 2008.
Badenoch confessed to the hack, which carried a jail sentence of up to five years at the time she acted, in response to a question about the “naughtiest” thing she had done.
For other politically motivated hackers, breaching the Computer Misuse Act has had serious consequences.
“Considering others have been prosecuted for similar, juvenile attacks on websites, I’ll be curious to see if the law will be applied equally in this case,” said Mustafa Al-Bassam, a former member of the hacking collective LulzSec. When he was 16, Bassam was given a 20-month suspended sentence for breaching the CMA as part of the group’s campaign.
“This is a situation where someone has straight-up admitted to a crime on TV, the police have an easy job. If a Conservative MP can admit to a computer crime on television and get away with it, then that says the law is not being enforced equally in the UK,” he said. Bassam, who is now a computer scientist at UCL, filed a crime report to the national cyber crime reporting centre on Sunday. |
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