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Ok, exactly what did he do that is illegal: He paid another company's employees to get information from said company's database, and that these employees acces
by snake_plissken 14y ago
Ok, exactly what did he do that is illegal: He paid another company's employees to get information from said company's database, and that these employees accessed the data by using some other employee's login credentials without permission?
- mpyne 14y agoWell, "industrial espionage" actually is a crime since 1996, no matter what tools you use to do it (and notably, has the harshest sentence of the 3 major types of crimes Nosal was charged with). Unauthorized access to a computer network was made to help complete the crime, which is itself criminal, just like there is a charge "mail fraud" that makes use of the postal system to further any criminal act illegal. Conspiracy is always illegal itself as well.
- snake_plissken 14y agothank you. i couldn't recall the exact words, but yeah this is classic industrial espionage