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Enterprise  \nTony Elbra  \n# Brunel UniversityLibrary\n\n# A Practical Guideto theComputer Misuse Act 1990\n\nTony Elbra  \n# British Library Cataloguing In Publication Data\n\nA Practical Guide to the Computer Misuse Act 1990  \n1.Great Britain.Computer systems.Law  \n1.National Computing Centre  \n344.1064  \nKN2862E5  \nNCC BLACKWELL LIMITED,1990  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or trasmitted,in any formorby any means,without the prior permission of NCC Blackwell Limited.  \nFirst published in 1990 by:  \nNCC Blackwell Limited,108 Cowley Road,Oxford OX41JF,England  \nEditorial Office:The National Computing Centre Limited,OxfordHouse,Oxford Road,Manchester M17ED,England.  \nTypesetin 11pt Bemboby ScribeTech Ltd,Bradford,West Yorkshire;and printed by Hobbs the Printers of Southampton.  \nISBN1-85554-077-0  \nAcknowledgements  \nThe author acknowledges the assistance given byJohn Head-Rapsonof the Department of Trade and Industry and by Chris Hook of theNCC in the preparation of this book.  \nhttps://archive.org/details/practicalguideto0000elbr  \n## Foreword\n\nIt is a truism that there are too many lawyers in Parliament with a vestedinterest in producing unintelligiblelegislation for which they can thencharge exorbitant fees for interpretation to the layman.  \nI am glad to say thatIam no lawyer and the Computer Misuse Act1990 which I steered through Parliament is as intelligible as I can makeit.Having said that,I must confess that,as we simplified the generalprovision in the Bill during its passage,the clauses on jurisdictionbecame necessarily more complicated.  \nI am therefore delighted to welcome this booklet,written by TonyElbra ofthe National Computing Centre Ltd,which advises you howyou may best make use of this new legislation.  \nWhen I drew Number Three in the ballot for Private Members Bills,I was deluged with helpful suggestions for legislation,but it was notuntil the Aids Diskette scandal hit the headlines,that Ilooked seriouslyat computer crime.  \nThis matter is so serious that we had hoped for a Government Bill,but the Law Commission Study on the subject of computer crimelawswas published in October 1989,by which time the Queen's Speechcontaining the Government's legislative programme for that Sessionof Parliament was finalised.  \nTo have delayed legislating until 1990/91 could have cost Britain  \nbillions of pounds of damage to computer systems,so here was ameasure which was urgently required and had general appeal,becausecomputers affect the everyday lives of all of us.  \nThe Act provides a coherent regime for the prosecution of those whomisuse computers.Ithas been framed specifically to deal with the newmischiefs which modern technology has brought.The police now havethe power to prosecute computer misuse without the need,in somecases,to try and stretch the existing criminallaw.The Act gives a clearsignal to future generations of would-behackers that computer misusewill no longer be tolerated by society.  \nThe Act can,however,only complement and not replace,securityprocedures.Prevention is,after all,better than cure.Users will haveto examine their existing security procedures and possibly re-definethe authority of users on their systems if they are to receive the fullsupport of the law.  \nMy message to computer users is that Parliament has done its bit-now it is up to you to do yours.  \nMICHAEL COLVIN  \nMember of Parliament for Romsey and Waterside  \nContents  \nAcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction  \nPage  \n1.Purpose of the Act  \n1  \n2.Description of the Offences  \n3  \n2.1 The Unauthorised Access Offence4  \n2.2 The Ulterior Intent Offence6  \n2.3 The Unauthorised Modification Offence83.Proving the Crime13  \n3.1 Collection of Evidence14  \n3.2 Establishing the Offence15  \n3.3 Jurisdiction194.Preventing Computer Misuse21  \n4.1 Organ","cbCaip5UtzvyM3p2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip5UtzvyM3p2","pdf",3023417,"English","# Foreword\n# Contents\n## 1. Purpose of the Act\n## 2. Description of the Offences\n### 2.1 The Unauthorised Access Offence\n### 2.2 The Ulterior Intent Offence\n### 2.3 The Unauthorised Modification Offence\n## 3. Proving the Crime\n### 3.1 Collection of Evidence\n### 3.2 Establishing the Offence\n### 3.3 Jurisdiction\n## 4. Preventing Computer Misuse\n### 4.1 Organisational Security\n### 4.2 Physical Security\n### 4.3 Logical Security\n## 5. IT Security Policy\n## A. Reports of the Law Commissions\n## Appendices\n## B. Definitions\n## C. 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