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Sounds to me like Toyota accessed thousands of computers without authorization.
by SloopJon 11y ago
Sounds to me like Toyota accessed thousands of computers without authorization.
- jjoonathan 11y agoThey're a corporation. Little people laws don't apply to them. (Oh, how I long to be wrong on this, but I strongly suspect that nothing, or at least nothing that will make the campaign a net negative, will come of the fact that they violated the hell out of the CFAA.)
- dangrossman 11y agoThe ad ran in Sweden. CFAA is an American law.
- geon 11y agoWe have the equivalent law against "dataintrång", lit. computerized trespass/intrusion. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataintr%C3%A5ng https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataintr%C3%A5ng https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K4P9c https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K4P9c
- jjoonathan 11y agoBoth of you: thanks for the correction.
- Animats 11y agoWe really need a case in which a corporate executive goes to jail for something like that.
- kristoffer 11y agoNot sure that the world really needs more litigation...
- matt_morgan 11y agoOverreaction. Is it illegal for me to talk to your phone? To broadcast myself with a megaphone, in a crowd, and yell "Hey Siri, turn on airplane mode"? Is it illegal for me to unplug your computer? Jerkish, sure, but illegal only, maybe, in very rare circumstances.
- anonbanker 11y agoI am officially doing this at every function I attend from now on. thank you for this fantastic idea. JWZ would be proud.
- joshstrange 11y agoI think you are missing the point. Sure, it's an overreaction but if an individual did it as a prank you can bet some prosecutor would try to make a name for themselves by throwing the book at them. What's fair for the goose...