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There is nothing dubious about collecting information if you do it legally. Further, it is what you do with it not the potential that would get you into legal
by drucken 15y ago
There is nothing dubious about collecting information if you do it legally.
Further, it is what you do with it not the potential that would get you into legal trouble, otherwise Google, Facebook and every other company would be under legal uncertainty.
Indeed, your hacking actions were far more risky without prior consent from all parties involved.
- mkopinsky 15y agoJust ask Google what the consequences are of collecting payload data traveling over the open air via their Street View cars. Collecting data is not always legal, even if you don't do anything with it.
- chris_wot 15y agoIn Australia, close to a decade ago, the Microplex (Optusnet) servers had a backdoor that revealed all the passwords via a generated webpage. Someone found this, posted the link to the newsgroups... then had their computer seized by the Australian Federal Police. Collecting passwords, at least in Australia, can get you in big trouble. Incidentally, I don't think that's a good thing, but it is a thing. Beware Australian security researchers!
- m8urn 15y agoThe difference is that all of these passwords are public knowledge and already published in some form. My compiling these passwords into a single list is different from gathering them directly from the source!
- mjwalshe 15y agoAnd what if you acidently obtain usernames and passwords that are covered by the Official Secrets act or the eqivelent Act in the USA. Its still an offence to have/read them even if some one else published them. Even less important things like bank acount username and pass words and usernaens and passwords for a companies website are still trade secrets.