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What would the crime be?
by aquateen 16y ago
What would the crime be?
- knowtheory 16y agoWell, he's knowingly misrepresenting himself. He's sending email as Dustin, with the specific intent of gaining unauthorized access to a system. (and he knows he's not authorized to post on Dustin's posterous)
- aquateen 16y agoThat much is obvious, but what would cause the FBI to get involved and what would he be charged with?
- mcknz 16y agoInterstate something-or-other.
- lylejohnson 16y agojcromartie's premise was, "If Dustin were a major corporation or a politician..." IANAL, and it's not exactly the same circumstances, but when Sarah Palin's e-mail was hacked during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the FBI and Secret Service both "got involved". According to Wikipedia the hacker in question was eventually found guilty of (1) felony obstruction of justice by destruction of records and (2) misdemeanor unauthorized access to a computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_email_hack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_email_hack
- aquateen 16y agoBasically what I am wondering is if he were to make a post to Pepsi's blog on Posterous, what would the federal crime be? The parent has a lot of upvotes, so I really want to know why they agree he committed a crime, rather than found a bug.
- calcnerd256 16y agoUpvotes aren't for agreeing.
- aquateen 16y agoWhether they found it insightful or interesting, they probably deemed the statement true. No need to split hairs.
- jcromartie 16y agoExamples: The hackers that sent sequential iPad device numbers to AT&T servers and got email addresses back. The hacker that guesses Sarah Palin's password.