Showing posts with label Council of Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Council of Europe. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 November 2008

Cyber-terrorism - possibility of death penalty in Pakistan

At first sight, for us European, it seems a heavy sentence that of death for cyber-terrorism. But it seems that the sentence is tied to a result: causing death of an other person, even it is indirectly by simply allowing access to computers. And death penalty is only an option, the other being life imprisonment. Comparing to the US regime, the US knowing also death penalty for murder, that is not so unreasonable. Note that Pakistan has not yet signed the Convention on cybercrime (http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ChercheSig.asp?NT=185&CM=&DF=&CL=ENG)
"Cyber-terrorism will be punishable by death" (7 November 2008)

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Security - Convention on cybercrime

THe convention on cybercrime allows for the law to require a minimum of security features implemented by users as a pre-condition to prosecute for hacking... So that for WI-FI, users are required to be cautious could hardly be surprising. However, two things trouble me here: first, it's not the Government which set up the requirements, but the ISPs; certaintly consumers have a contract with ISPs but I find this unilateral change problematic given the indirect consequences it can have on criminal law, even if those consequences are unwanted. Second, to which extend the ISPs are refusing to engage into providing security features, I wonder? because I suspect it is easier to pass the burden of building good security that doing it themselves.
UK ISP Claims It Will Disconnect Any Customers With Open WiFi (3 November 2008)