Thesis
Computer (mis)use and the law: what's wrong with the CMA?
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A series of justifications accompany the introduction of any new criminal law. The Computer Misuse Act 1990 (‘CMA’) section 1 offence was justified on the basis that acts that might otherwise be characterised as digital trespass represented a new form of criminally wrongful conduct: such acts compromised the integrity of a computer, program, or system. ‘Hackers’ and ‘hacking’, those that seek ‘unauthorised access’ to computers or data and the tools and techniques that ena...
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2020-10-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Wilson, K
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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