Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on reviewing the applicability of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to the use or commissioning of botnets in respect to the purchasing of event tickets.

Section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 makes it an offence to supply
or obtain articles for use in offences under section 1 (unauthorised access
to computer material) or section 3 (unauthorised actions with intent to impair,
or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer etc.). For the
purposes of section 3A an article or tool could include a ‘botnet’. We keep
the Computer Misuse Act 1990 under constant review.