todays cybercrime laws suck... big time! and innocent hackers get their asses in trouble way to often. And even when it's the real cyber criminals who get caught the get way to big sentences. this is a serious problem. And remember, hacker don't break the law because they don't abuse their knowledge.
but it's like I posted it earlier... We are legally allowed to grab all the info open for the public we can find. So we query ports etc. without breaking the law. or so we thought... hehe
Big firms might actually sue someone just because they see your IP in their log-files way to many places and because it pops up in their IDS. They don't really have any proper proof (because, hey the law wasn't really broken) but they do have money and a big bunch of extremely good lawyers..
the ugliest about this is that their own webserver probably automatically do all the same things against all their customers that the hacker did to them but they got pissed. this is where the law fails. and this is just one of many examples... a whole new law is needed.. a law made by hacker and computer experts in cooperation with government. the problem today is that it's just a bunch of dumb win98 using politicians who are sitting and accepting all new cybercrime bills... they don't know **** about 'puters! (most of 'em don't)
they seriously see any hacker as a potential terrorist...