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Since when has it ever been illegal to claim you're someone or something that you're not on the Internet? This is legal without question.
by mightytightywty 9y ago
Since when has it ever been illegal to claim you're someone or something that you're not on the Internet? This is legal without question.
- jdavis703 9y agoIt might be against the terms of service of the website you're crawling, which puts you in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (i.e. you're considered to be "hacking" them).
- tomsmeding 9y agoMaybe that's called "hacking" in the relevant document, but I'd classify that as overly broad.
- jdavis703 9y agoWell however you classify it doesn't matter, what matters is how the government classifies it. There's the tragic story of Aaron Swartz who was caught up in this non-sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz.
- smt88 9y ago1) It's illegal to impersonate law enforcement online. 2) It's illegal to commit fraud by pretending to be someone else online (when, for example, using someone else's credit card or opening a bank account in their name). 3) You can be sued for things that are totally legal, such as blemishing Google's brand my impersonate them and doing things that annoy people.