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How a hack on Prince Philip's Prestel account led to UK computer law

Pen-y-gors

New laws?

"It is a precedent in English criminal law that new laws will not be considered unless existing law is shown to be inadequate,"

Oh yes? Could someone explain that to the current crop of ministers (Con, Lab and Lib) who seem to write new laws in response to every headline in the Daily Fail, regardless of whether there are already perfectly effective laws on the Statute Book (just ones which the Peelers can't be arsed to enforce.)

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