Re:Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to...
by DanBC on Friday July 18, 2014 @10:47AM
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> I think that it is more likely that GCHQ employs ex-hackers, especially those who have been due to be prosecuted under Computer Misuse Act misdemeanors.
Those people may get work in companies that do business with GCHQ/CESG, but I think it's unlikely they would be employed by GCHQ directly.
You use the word "misdemeanors" - that doesn't really have direct equivalent in English law. Do you mean something that is not a criminal offence? Or something that is criminal but not arrestable? Or something that is arrestable but which doesn't carry a prison sentence?
Those people may get work in companies that do business with GCHQ/CESG, but I think it's unlikely they would be employed by GCHQ directly.
You use the word "misdemeanors" - that doesn't really have direct equivalent in English law. Do you mean something that is not a criminal offence? Or something that is criminal but not arrestable? Or something that is arrestable but which doesn't carry a prison sentence?