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Whatever it is that the FBI did, the agency should be held to exactly the same standard as a private individual interacting with a company's online presence. Ha
by atlantic 12y ago
Whatever it is that the FBI did, the agency should be held to exactly the same standard as a private individual interacting with a company's online presence. Have private individuals ever been prosecuted for exploiting security loopholes to extract data from a public site? If so, then government agencies should be held to the same standard, and any data obtained in that way should be deemed inadmissible as evidence.
- asuffield 12y agoI do not feel that it is a good idea to further encourage or embed a precedent in this direction. We've had too many cases going in that direction already. I would far rather see cases establish a precedent that, if no harm is otherwise caused, then the act of confirming a security flaw is not unlawful in its own right.
- atlantic 12y agoMy point is that, for the purposes of justice, the exact same standards should apply to government agents and private individuals in the matter of admissibility of evidence. Meaning that if they want to relax the standard for the government, then security analysts should also benefit.