Dutch MP Fined For Ethical Hacking 122
An anonymous reader writes "Dutch Member of Parliament (MP) Henk Krol was fined 750 (US$1,000) by the district court of Oost-Brabant on Friday for breaking and entering the system of the Dutch medical laboratory Diagnostics for You. Krol said he entered the system as an ethical hacker to show that it was easy to access and download confidential medical information. Krol, leader of the Dutch 50plus party, accessed the systems of the laboratory with a login and password he had obtained from a patient of the clinic, who in turn had overheard the information at the laboratory from a psychiatrist that worked there ... In April last year, Krol used the login information to enter the company's Web server and subsequently viewed and downloaded medical files of several patients. He did this to prove how easy it was to get access to the systems, according to the ruling (PDF in Dutch).'"
Krol! (Score:0, Funny)
He is Krol, ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8 and member of the dutch Parliament!
Re:Showoff Gets Off Easy (Score:5, Funny)
I like this judge. Seems like sound reasoning to me all around, and the sentencing seems entirely fair.
Can we get this judge to come work in the US? Pretty please?