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On August 29th, 1990 the British Computer Misuse Act went into Effect (en.wikipedia.org)
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One of the earliest laws anywhere designed to address computer fraud, the Act resulted from a long debate in the 1980s over failed prosecutions of hackers -- in one well-publicized case, two men hacked into a British Telecom computer leaving messages in the Duke of Edinburgh's private mailbox.

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