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Posted by: Wil 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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The UK government has announced a set of guidelines to be applied to the Computer Misuse Act which will make it illegal to possess or distribute "hacking tools." The maximum prison sentence available for computer-related crimes is increased to ten years and denial of service attacks have been clearly made illegal.