March 02, 2004

Is password-lending a cybercrime?

A worrying precedent:

In a little-observed civil lawsuit involving tracking of magazine subscriptions, a federal court in Manhattan issued a ruling last week that could theoretically result in prosecutors going after people who use another person's password and userid with their permission, but without the permission of the issuer.

Posted by roam at March 2, 2004 09:18 AM
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