Re: FN-FORUM: definition

date posted 22nd November 2005 13:30

HI Dom,

I was thinking of trying to use another dns server to try and speed things
up, but have decided it's to much of a grey area to even think about
continuing. So I give up and just accept what BT have given me....

DG)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dom Latter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: definition



On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 12:17 pm, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> I'm confused [I know not difficult] regarding the definition of the word
> "Hacker".
>
> I've paid a visit to my BT Voyager 205 ADSL Router configuration site. I
> find no dns servers listed, and have found a list of dns addresses for UK
> machines. But if I enter one of these addresses into my router config file
> is that hacking another machine, as in [illegal, unlawful]?

The law is a right mess. We've recently seen someone convicted for
enter "../../../" into the address bar of his browser. Meanwhile a
mailbomber
was acquitted because sending email to a mail server is "authorised" -
even if you are trying to overwhelm the machine and crash it.

But - if it's your router you can do what you like with it. Or do you mean
you are setting up your router so that you are using someone else's
DNS server?

I'd guess that if somebody's set up a DNS server to respond to requests
from all and sundry, then access is implicitly authorised. But it would
probably depend on whether the judge's gout was playing up again.

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