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The blog is under a German domain, the company is from Malta. Why would they care about a US law again?
by phyrog 8mo ago
The blog is under a German domain, the company is from Malta. Why would they care about a US law again?
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 8mo agoBecause Americans can never comprehend of literally anywhere on earth existing. Genuinely if any other place on earth tried this crap…the Americans would lose their minds.
- kubb 8mo agoWhy don’t you just get a rotisserie chicken from Costco and put some money into your 401k? Be careful, the IRS knows exactly how much taxes you owe.
- kyusan0 8mo agoIANAL but the law in Germany is basically the same in this case, accessing data that's meant to be protected and not intended for you is is illegal. It depends somewhat on the interpretation of what "specifically protected" ("besonders gesichert") means. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__202a.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__202a.html
- master-lincoln 8mo agoCan a non specific password constitute a specific protection? I guess no
- andersa 8mo agoIt can. The fact there is a password, even if you can trivially find said password, is considered a protection. The German law is completely absurd here.
- cryptonector 8mo agoExactly. My apologies for not noticing this was over in Europe, but you'll find laws similar to CFAA all over the place. And in Europe it might be worse simply because you might have 27 different such laws _and_ the European arrest warrant, and you might not know which of those 27 laws applies. (I guess you could say the same about the U.S., with 50 instead of 27, but at least for this sort of thing in the U.S. it's mainly federal law that matters the most.)