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		mirimir on March 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t c... > It should not be the simple act of accessing a computer contrary to the owners terms and conditions that is a crime, but the specific acts of searching for, wilfully accessing and sharing privileged information on systems where the persons whose information you were accessing had a reasonable expectation that that information would be private. Why wouldn't that apply to some website that's using some cache exploit to probe users' browsing histories?

clort on April 1, 2020 [–]

I don't know. Would it be a problem if that was a criminal offense?

mirimir on April 1, 2020 | [–]

I believe that it ought to be.

I mean, a computer is a computer, and unauthorized access is unauthorized access. No matter who's involved.

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