TY - JOUR
AU - Coutts, J. A.
AB - Evidence of Computer Hacking to Commit Fraud Morgans v DPP [2000] 2 Cr App R 113 The appellant had a telephone provided, maintained and serviced by British Telecommunications pIc (BT). The police suspected that he was using it unlawfully to gain unauthorised access to the computer net­ works of a number of companies. They arranged with BT that a logging device be fitted at their telephone exchange which would print out the time, date, duration and destination of every call from the appellant's telephone. Of course BT had such a system for ascertaining the charges to be made for their services to their customers, but this new logging device went further in that it followed each call after it had accessed a computer system, so that its print-out recorded any call-on from that network. By comparing that print-out with those of the companies' networks, the police were able to obtain information not only of his hacking the computer networks (which they had suspected), but also of the fact (which they had not suspected) that he was using the networks which he had unlawfully accessed to make innumerable calls, including calls to the Philippines which was the country of origin 
TI - House of Lords
JO - The Journal of Criminal Law
DO - 10.1177/002201830006400605
DA - 2000-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/house-of-lords-DJWSab0WKL
SP - 583
EP - 588
VL - 64
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -