Intellectual Property Law

DOSing around & squatters rights

In the usual course of events, a technology lawyer would only be connected with denial of service (DOS) or distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS) if they were advising the Crown Prosecution Service on the prosecution of such an attack. This nice chilled out position doesn't apply in the case of Geeklawyer, the anonymous IT barrister whose blog is famous/infamous for its entertaining and acidic discourses on current affairs.

We learn from Lawcareers.net that Geeklawyer's blog "has been dismantled by anarchists who claim he's part of an assassination plot". Having looked into this, the "dismantling" has taken the form of a DOS attack that has left the poor blog out of action, with just a holding page. Not one to be stopped by a technical hitch of any size, Geeklawyer has set up "The Squat", a temporary home.

In addition to using his geek skills, I wonder whether Geeklawyer will be deploying his legal experience and complaining about the attack to the local police, and assisting with a prosecution under section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act?

Full post as published by IMPACT on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).