Cross-party support for tougher UK hacking law

[Bob Crabtree]

The Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties both support stiffer penalties for computer hacking, as proposed in Labour's Police and Justice Bill, according to the BBC.

The BBC report says that,

Anyone hacking a computer could be punished with 10 years' imprisonment under new laws.

There will be a clearer outlawing of offences like denial-of-service attacks in which systems are debilitated.

The bill would also boost the penalty for using hacking tools.

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