Thursday, 2. August 2007
Topic: COMPUTER - on August 2, 2007 at 1:56:00 PM CEST
Use of web archive was not hacking, says US court
The use of web archive The Wayback Machine did not constitute hacking in the case of a law firm which used the web archive to see pages which owners did not want it to see, a US court has ruled.
The deliberate bypassing or evasion of the archive's protection measures could still be deemed hacking, though, said Judge Robert Kelly, the judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In this case, protection mechanisms put in place by the page owners had failed.
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