Mr. Peter Sommer

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  Meanwhile in Britain, the case against Bevan fell apart because testimony from Ziese and others wasn't going to stand up in court. 'Much of the US evidence would have collapsed on detailed scrutiny,' according to Peter Sommer, the LSE computer security and Internet expert who advised the defence teams for both men.
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  A further flaw in the USAF evidence appeared in May, when they refused to let defence experts examine and test programs they had used to monitor the Net. ?Worst of all,? says Sommer, ?having set traps to catch hackers, they neglected to produce ?before? and ?after? file dumps of the target computers.?
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  "The U.S. cyber sleuth teams simply did not understand the difference between conducting a technical investigation and producing robust admissible evidence," said Peter Sommer, a senior fellow at the London School of Economics' Computer Security Research Center, according to Newsbytes.Sommer testified as a defense expert for both Pryce and Bevan.
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  Sommer said the U.S. government had flubbed the case from the start.The government detectives "neglected to produce 'before' and 'after' file dumps of the target computers," Sommer said.

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  The attacks will be difficult to trace, said Professor Peter Sommer, an expert on cyberterrorism at the London School of Economics. ''Even if you are right about the fact of being attacked, initial diagnoses are often wrong,'' he said Wednesday.

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  Furthermore, the fight against cyber crime was being hamstrung by a failure to collect proper data on its prevalence, said Peter Sommer, visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

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  Specially commissioned material has been written by Professor Peter Sommer, a legal and technical expert in the field, who has acted as an expert witness in cases ranging from terrorism and fraud, child abuse and hacking to corporate espionage, defamation and murder."One of the problems I and others have noticed, particularly within organisations, is that evidence that might have existed in computers gets wrecked the first hour or so after something has been discovered," said Professor Sommer."People just do not know what they are doing.

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  Security expert Peter Sommer is concerned by the conviction.
  
  "Nobody thought he was doing anything significant or malicious, and there was a strong argument that the police should have given him a slap on the wrists and not prosecuted," said Sommer, senior research fellow at the London School of Economics' Information Systems Integrity Group.
  
  Under Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act, 1990, any unauthorised access to a computer site can be considered a crime, if the person accessing the system knows that he is not authorised to access the site.
  
  As the Act says, "a person is guilty of an offence if: he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer and the access he intends to secure is unauthorised and he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case."
  
  In making his decision, district judge Mr Q. Purdy said that the court would have to take into account Cuthbert's previous conduct when deciding whether he was guilty.
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  Sommer backed up this point.
  
  "The major problem was that he gave them an overly complex explanation which turned out not to be true, and involved them in a lot more work.That's probably why the judge didn't give him a conditional discharge, which was open to him," Sommer told ZDNet UK.
  
  Sommer is now digesting the implications of the judge's ruling.
  
  "There are a number of long term issues," said Sommer."We've now got a very strict interpretation on how Section 1 works and how it might be interpreted in terms of an attempt.Some of the tests you might instinctively want to run to see if a site is valid may fall foul of a strict interpretation."
  
  Sommer added that there are also public policy implications.
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  The police need the help of penetration testers and this won't help," Sommer said.
  
  A computer consultant has been convicted of gaining unauthorised access to a Web site collecting donations for victims of last year's tsunami, even though the judge hearing the case accepted that he meant to cause no harm.

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  Charlie Seiz, MD, Seiz Printing Co, Peter Sommer, MD, Sommer Corporate Media and Mats Almgren, CFO, Elanders AB.

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  Professor Peter Sommer, author of The Hacker's Handbook, claims it is illegal.He argues that it is an interception of a public communication which is in direct contravention of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

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  Digital Footprints, Cell Site Analysis, Forensic Pathology, DNA, Instructing experts and Presenting Expert Evidence The Royal College of Surgeons of England 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3PE 9 June 2007 Speakers include: - The Hon Mrs Justice Dobbs - Peter Sommer, Joint Lead Assessor, Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners; Senior Research Fellow, London School of Economics and the Open University - Eddie Phillips, Forensic Telecommunications Service Cell Site Analyst - Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl, Home Office Forensic Pathologist - Dr Denise Syndercombe Court, Senior Lecturer in Haematology and Forensic Haemogenetics at Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry - Peter Lodder QC, 2 Bedford Row
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  Digital Footprints - Peter Sommer

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  Professor Peter Sommer, the author of the groundbreaking 1980s book The Hacker's Handbook and a frequent expert witness in data crime trials, said the plan to monitor the contents of the websites people visit in order to target advertising could fall foul of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
  
  Commenting on BT network diagrams that describe the system, obtained by The Register, Professor Sommer said: "Whatever the parties involved say, this appears to be an interception under RIPA.

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  Professor Peter Sommer, the author of the groundbreaking 1980s book The Hacker's Handbook
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  , Professor Sommer said: "Whatever the parties involved say, this appears to be an interception under RIPA.

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