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> If he had accidentally written sloppy code The damage was intentional (i.e., not an accident).

• hurricanetc 7y ago
  Right. In this case he plead guilty and admitted to having done it. I am just curious as to which specific laws he broke and whether it is possible to inadvertently break these laws by being a horrible programmer. If he had intentionally created a spaghetti code mess that just happened to break from time to time would that be different? I assume intention is difficult to prove in court but I am not an attorney.
  • elcomet 7y ago
    > If he had intentionally created a spaghetti code mess that just happened to break from time to time would that be different ? Clearly, yes. Here Siemens decided to go to court because it was obviously malicious code. With a spaghetti mess they would just have hired someone else to clean it.
  • pc86 7y ago
    > I am just curious as to which specific laws he broke 18 USC 1030, or: > > intentional damage to a protected computer