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I'm curious as to what law, exactly, they would be breaking. Sabotage in the US code is defined mostly in terms of war material and damages done to physical "na
by xkeysc0re 5y ago
I'm curious as to what law, exactly, they would be breaking. Sabotage in the US code is defined mostly in terms of war material and damages done to physical "national defense" properties. Certainly an employee would be fired and sued by the company, but is deliberately changing a routing policy (and not something like a worm or virus that deletes or otherwise degrades hardware and software) a crime?
- bawolff 5y agoIANAL but I would assume computer fraud and abuse act: (5)(a)knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
- xkeysc0re 5y agoIn the cases cited under the CFAA (such as https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12454527986200733388 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=124545279862007...) it seems the employee deleted data and private info. In this case, no data was deleted or other computing property damaged it just became unreachable.
- ironlion624 5y agoThat’s the one.
- pwdisswordfish0 5y agoThe recent Van Buren decision would make that unlikely. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389500
- ironlion624 5y agoProof of intent is a significant burden placed upon prosecution. If that can be overcome, there’s legal precedent for criminal conviction namely under the CFAA. https://tadlaw.com/can-charged-crime-sabotaging-employers-computer/ https://tadlaw.com/can-charged-crime-sabotaging-employers-co...