Report suggests public interest defences for infosec professionals, academics and journalists
Britain's main anti-hacker law, the Computer Misuse Act 1990, is "confused", "outdated" and "ambiguous", according to a group of pro-reform academics.
A report launched this morning by the Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN) described a "range of measures to better tailor existing offences in line with our international obligations and other modern legal systems" in a call for the 30-year-old Act to be overhauled.
CLRNN mostly consists of academics from the University of Birmingham. In its report (PDF), the network described the current Act as "preventing cyber security professionals from carrying out threat intelligence research against cyber criminals and geo-political threat actors", something it said is "leaving the UK's critical national infrastructure at increased risk".
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