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Providing exam solutions?
Some universities do not provide solutions/mark-schemes to exam papers. If someone (e.g. a student) was to upload online (e.g. via a blog or in a document) solutions that they themselves have made ...
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My nickname violate the Google+ Names Policy, how about my privacy?
I would like to use my nickname instead of full name when commenting on random posts within Google network.
However when I wanted to enforce that (by changing my Full Name into nickname), I found out ...
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Where do telecommunication crimes take place?
In the United Kingdom, where does a telecommunication crime take place?
Is it the location of the criminal or the victim?
For instance, if you hacked a computer in London, but you were based in ...
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Internet banking regulations in the UK
I'm writing a report for some University coursework, in which I am supposed to analyse the security of an online bank.
I'm trying, with some difficulty, to find any laws/regulations/standards that ...
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Transferring public domain material into a country where it is still in copyright
I've noticed that, in Australia, books created by authors who've died before 1955 are in the public domain.
For example, all of George Orwell's works are available from the University of Adelaide: ...
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The legality of fictional stories involving sex with minors
I have a quick question as I am curious about the legality of websites such as literotica as an example.
These websites are aimed at the kink community. I have heard Literotica
contains countless ...
user2585
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Legality of scanning a site with SSLLabs SSL Server Test in order to find and report weaknesses
I am wanting to scan a site (which I do not own) to see if they are vulnerable to anything like Heartbleed or the POODLE attack, not because I want to exploit any such vulnerabilities for malicious ...
user1157
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Are Captcha solver farms illegal?
Let say that captcha is a picture that prevents automated programs to do a certain task. Now imagine that we have a service in which some people works to solve some captchas. These captchas are sent ...
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Does the use of an escrow service affect liabilities?
Would a website that provides a third-party escrow service to protect its members that trade between themselves be increasing its exposure to any additional liabilities?
My thinking is that despite ...
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