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Supreme Court: Hacking conviction stands for man who didn’t hack computer
A friend messaged this to me. Here's our conversation.
Him: this is an interesting case
Him: im not sure how i feel about it
Him: basically they played out the plot to office space
Him: 3 people, 2 programmers and a guy with access to files, stole information from their employer in order to make a competing firm
Him: the 2 programmers were charged with stealing information and hacking, and whatever
Him: the third guy argued he shouldn't be sentenced because he didn't touch a computer, he only told others to do it, vs doing it himself
Me: I guess they gave the 3rd person the same charges?
Him: lesser charges, but still a year in prison
Me: Got ya.
Me: I guess that's illegal also now.
Me: You can't coerce people into doing something illegal.
Him: anyways, he said he committed no crime since asking someone to do something isn't illegal on it's own
Him: they let the court order for a guilty verdict stand
Him: all in all, it sounds right
Him: but here's where it gets complicated, bosses tell their subordinates to do illegal things with computers all the time
Him: not out of maliciousness, but because they genuinely don't know any better
Me: Ok.
Him: this is going to potentially open a lot of people up to prosecution in the future
Him: to laws that they don't know about, much less understand
Me: Hmm. Think it'll stand in the long haul, then?
Me: Or will they eventually revisit it and change the ruling? Or is it a matter of the Supreme Court is NEVER wrong?
Him: the supreme court won't hear another case like this for a long time
Him: so probably
Me: hmm...
Him: courts are really slow with technology
A friend messaged this to me. Here's our conversation.
Him: this is an interesting case
Him: im not sure how i feel about it
Him: basically they played out the plot to office space
Him: 3 people, 2 programmers and a guy with access to files, stole information from their employer in order to make a competing firm
Him: the 2 programmers were charged with stealing information and hacking, and whatever
Him: the third guy argued he shouldn't be sentenced because he didn't touch a computer, he only told others to do it, vs doing it himself
Me: I guess they gave the 3rd person the same charges?
Him: lesser charges, but still a year in prison
Me: Got ya.
Me: I guess that's illegal also now.
Me: You can't coerce people into doing something illegal.
Him: anyways, he said he committed no crime since asking someone to do something isn't illegal on it's own
Him: they let the court order for a guilty verdict stand
Him: all in all, it sounds right
Him: but here's where it gets complicated, bosses tell their subordinates to do illegal things with computers all the time
Him: not out of maliciousness, but because they genuinely don't know any better
Me: Ok.
Him: this is going to potentially open a lot of people up to prosecution in the future
Him: to laws that they don't know about, much less understand
Me: Hmm. Think it'll stand in the long haul, then?
Me: Or will they eventually revisit it and change the ruling? Or is it a matter of the Supreme Court is NEVER wrong?
Him: the supreme court won't hear another case like this for a long time
Him: so probably
Me: hmm...
Him: courts are really slow with technology
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