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Obviously, IANAL In a sense, that gradation is present for other offenses. You kill a man by accident? It may end up being involuntary manslaughter. You kill t
by A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago
Obviously, IANAL
In a sense, that gradation is present for other offenses. You kill a man by accident? It may end up being involuntary manslaughter. You kill that same man with malice and planning? It charge will move to aggravated and premeditated murder.
At the end of the day, a life was taken and some level of judicial review should take place. That does not appear to happen for 'hack' events.
- ribosometronome 3y agoAre involuntary manslaughter cases not usually predicated on some sort of negligence or other criminal activity on the part of the manslaughter? I don't think I've ever heard of anyone being punished for being the person in the wrong place when someone else decides to commit suicide by train or vehicle, for example. If we take the comparison down a step (and into what I think is maybe a more comparable situation), I routinely see warnings in parking lots that they are not liable for stolen property or damage and imagine those are generally probably pretty accurate outside of, again, some negligence on the side of the business.
- gretch 3y agoThe difference between this situation is that you still committed an action, compared to simply being acted on. A better analogy would be like if you were a bank holding peoples' money. Armed assailants break into the money and take it. Is the bank liable because it did not have adequate defenses for the attack? But the bank situation is easy to solve because it's money and money is fungible, so you solve it with insurance. Leaked data can't be revoked and it's hard to quantify. If you make the policy wrong, you essentially end up punishing a victim party (the end users are victims, but the firm that was attacked is also a victim).