Comment Re:armchair lawyers (Score 1) 457
Can you clarify why (3)(2) gives them wiggle room:
"A person is guilty of an offence if at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge to cause a modification of the contents of any computer and by so doing impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data."
IANAL but that seems pretty watertight and section 17 paragraph 18 is also pretty succinct:
"(8) Such a modification is unauthorised if-- (a) the person whose act causes it is not himself entitled to determine whether the modification should be made; and (b) he does not have consent to the modification from any person who is so entitled. "