Re: US Navy could be crippled by software backdoors.

Andrew Chaplin wrote:
> "Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no_way> wrote in message
> news:cs714297rv7v9u8539klfcaa1m9cq42ibk@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:31:05 +0100, Andrew Swallow
>> <am.swallow@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>> The rest of the Official Secrets Act has the limitation of British
>>> territory and/or British citizens. Section 6 is different, it
> covers
>>> non British citizens and organisations world wide - they just have
> to
>>> accept that they received the information "in confidence". To
> ensure
>>> that readers knows that the document is not for public distribution
>>> there are MOD regulations requiring authors to cover the front page
> in
>>> warnings.
>> And how would this be enforced?
>
> I suspect that, in some jurisdictions, their only recourse would be to
> sue -- and never to provide them info again, of course.

After the MoD cancel the contract the perpetrator could win a holiday in
London. It may last longer than he planned.

Andrew Swallow
Received on Mon May 1 01:59:51 2006