Local hacker facing arrest

[rpm]

Cape Town hacker facing arrest

A warrant of arrest was authorised in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court, Cape Town, on Friday for a woman accused of hacking the internet system of Parliament’s operations officer.

 

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[zizebra]

Hacked for real? I think she had username and password and they had a fallout

 

[gregmcc]

"Hacking describes the gaining of access via the internet into another system, without the permission of the other system’s owner."

Really??!! What bs. Got nothing to do with the internet

 

[supersunbird]

Magicdude4eva is a woman?

 

[HDS]

You must be a really sh*t "hacker" to get caught "hacking" in South Africa.

 

[froot]

Really??!! What bs. Got nothing to do with the internet

Exactly. It's merely a person who seeks and exploits flaws in a computer system or computer network.

 

[ProAsm]

You must be a really sh*t "hacker" to get caught "hacking" in South Africa.

LOL... how true

 

[mercurial]

A female hacker? Gtfo.

 

[Necuno]

Cape Town hacker facing arrest

A warrant of arrest was authorised in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court, Cape Town, on Friday for a woman accused of hacking the internet system of Parliament’s operations officer.

An URL was changed :erm:

 

[mercurial]

Meh. The last paragraph of the article explains it all.

 

[greg0205]

Hacked for real? I think she had username and password and they had a fallout

Username and password..? Her name is Cleopatra and she works in parliament. Tech for these folk is sending a BBM and the entire internet is basically Facebook and online banking.
I recon she printed an e-mail or two... Maybe she printed them one of those wireless network printers that run on, you know, voodoo, and that's why they're confused.

 

[Paul Hjul]

nope this is an actual case of unauthorized access unlike the CoJ who provided authorization as proved by the logs

 

[zizebra]

nope this is an actual case of unauthorized access unlike the CoJ who provided authorization as proved by the logs

Iam seriously doubting this one. Unauthorized Access Yes. Probably a case of casual snooping because she had previously had access and kept some usernames and passwords for fun. Probably bragged not knowing this can end up as hacking case.

 

[Bern]

"Hacking describes the gaining of access via the internet into another system, without the permission of the other system’s owner."

Really??!! What bs. Got nothing to do with the internet

Also not really anything to do with hacking either. As a few above point out - this is just unauthorized access, not necessarily a case of actual hacking or cracking.

Its a pity the term hacking gets used incorrectly so much (I am also to blame, but I try not to) as it is really more of a positive thing, meaning to make something work in an unintended fashion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(term)

 

[cfilorux]

She hacked what?

What did she hack? "An internet system"? So it's a system. A system that does something internetly. Is this one of those computer things?

 

[House]

nope this is an actual case of unauthorized access unlike the CoJ who provided authorization as proved by the logs

Yeah right and that probably the reason why the SAPS and the Commercial Crimes Court is still busy with the investigation working on the logs, obtaining affidavits from all account holders whose accounts has been accessed by specific IP addresses.....

We do not have the term 'hacking' in our law. Here is the section that covers hacking:


86.
(1) Subject to the Interception and Monitoring Prohibition Act, 1992 (Act No. 127 of 1992), a person who intentionally accesses or intercepts any data without authority or permission to do so, is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who intentionally and without authority to do so, interferes with data in a way which causes such data to be modified, destroyed or otherwise rendered ineffective, is guilty of an offence.
(3) A person who unlawfully produces, sells, offers to sell, procures for use, designs, adapts for use, distributes or possesses any device, including a computer program or a component, which is designed primarily to overcome security measures for the protection of data, or performs any of those acts with regard to a password, access code or any other similar kind of data with the intent to unlawfully utilise such item to contravene this section, is guilty of an offence.
(4) A person who utilises any device or computer program mentioned in subsection (3) in order to unlawfully overcome security measures designed to protect such data or access thereto, is guilty of an offence.
(5) A person who commits any act described in this section with the intent to interfere with access to an information system so as to constitute a denial, including a partial denial, of service to legitimate users is guilty of an offence.

'Hacking' in SA law is all about overcoming security measures.

 

[AfricanTech]

Sensationalist headline.

This incident is to hacking as using a stolen safe combination is to safe cracking

I sincerely doubt that the accused could 'hack' into anything - well, maybe a chocolate cake...

 

[House]

Sensationalist headline.

This incident is to hacking as using a stolen safe combination is to safe cracking

I sincerely doubt that the accused could 'hack' into anything - well, maybe a chocolate cake...

I agree, looking at the article, although poorly written with very few facts, this does not appear to be hacking. The same with the COJ case. Hacking was never involved, it was the media that brought the 'hacking' claims. The only offence in the COJ case was unauthorized access to data. The same appears to be the case here.

 

[Paul Hjul]

Yeah right and that probably the reason why the SAPS and the Commercial Crimes Court is still busy with the investigation working on the logs, obtaining affidavits from all account holders whose accounts has been accessed by specific IP addresses.....

We do not have the term 'hacking' in our law.

'Hacking' in SA law is all about unauthorized access.

Ftfy