2009/4/16 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>om>:
I hope someone's reported him to the police for
this criminal offense. Under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, deliberately making an
unauthorized modification to computer data which impairing the reliability of the data can
land you up to five years in jail (well, theoretically, at least - in practice he'd
probably get off with a caution!)
I've mentioned it to Mike Godwin, he doesn't think there's much we can
do (although I was talking more about that, apparently false, claim
that we didn't fix it for a week). I'm not sure he's familiar with the
Computer Misuse Act 1990, but I'm pretty sure no-one has been
successfully prosecuted for vandalising a wiki so far. That kind of
vandalism doesn't really impair the reliability of the data, since
it's not something anyone would interpret as factual data - it's
clearly someone's opinion.