No, at worst, it would be criminal mischief. Criminal mischief with $0 in property damage…
Actually, it could be. That could be considered vandalism (you’re intentionally making unauthorized modifications to equipment to prevent it from working as expected) which is illegal.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 months ago
So people can just unplug cables at data centers because it’s “$0 property damage criminal mischief”?
Come on, their lawyers would (successfully) argue that they experienced loss of revenue for any amount of time their remote cashier system was not connected and operational…
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, “people” cannot even enter a data center without walking through multiple security man traps and providing identification that gets kept at the desk while inside. A data center is not a sandwich shop.
Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They can just plug it back in. It’ll be ok.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, I guess if you can just plug it back in, that just invalidates the downtime that was caused or data being lost.
Being able to undo vandalism doesn’t make it suddenly not vandalism.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not vandalism.