@Red Bren - Re: Commit a small crime to stop a big crime?
> If someone was to hack in to a system in order to delete a database of illegally held information, would it be a crime?
Unfortunately, yes. It's what you do, not *why* you do it that tends to count.
Of course that doesn't apply if your the Police/ Security Services/ Government/ whoever because it's one law for us and another one for them (or, at least, one that they can ignore...)