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ysjet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Theoretically, yes. Realistically, judges historically believe anything prosecutors tell them about hacking and circumvention.

There’s been people thrown in jail for the rest of their life for the crime of clicking a public URL that the company didn’t intend to be public.

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0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

There’s been people thrown in jail for the rest of their life for the crime of clicking a public URL that the company didn’t intend to be public.

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The closest i’ve heard was a journalist being accused of hacking for the crime of choosing “view source” in the right-click menu of a web-browser.

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- ysjet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If you scroll down a bit, I actually already answered that question in this exact threat, one reply down.
  
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svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
In general I agree, but I am going to have to ask you for a source on that last one.

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- ysjet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Looks like I mixed up two different cases the cause of one, and the duration of another- weev (who aparently turned out to be a giant asshole) was the one who got sent to jail for accessing a completely public URL AT&T wished he didn’t in 2010. The EFF took up his case. His sentence was later vacated because another court went ‘yeah no that’s bullshit,’ so he only served a year or two.
  
  As for the CFAA being used to slap people with damages that are WAY too big, there’s too many examples to know which one I was mixing it up with. Aaron Swartz is the classic example.
  
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  - 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    so he only served ~2y.
    
    Still 2y more than he should’ve, geez…
    
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