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minus-squareVeraxuslinkfedilink28•1 year agoIt’s just shorthand for “unauthorized access to a digital system”. There could be no password at all and it would still count as “hacking”. The difficulty of gaining access isn’t really relevant, legally speaking.
minus-square@Vqhmlink3•1 year agoI hope they at least had a unauthorized use warning aka Login Banner. https://security.tennessee.edu/login-banners/ This need for a warning login banner is sometimes called a myth in INFO SEC. But if it is a myth it’s a VERY old one. 1990 NIST - Defense Data Network Security Bulletin: b. A court recently threw out a suit against a computer system intruder because the logon prompt was preceded with “Welcome to…”. https://ftp.st.ryukoku.ac.jp/pub/security/ciac/secdocs/ddn/ddn-9004.txt ftp://ciac.llnl.gov/pub/ciac/secdocs/ddn/ddn-9004.txt
It’s just shorthand for “unauthorized access to a digital system”. There could be no password at all and it would still count as “hacking”. The difficulty of gaining access isn’t really relevant, legally speaking.
I hope they at least had a unauthorized use warning aka Login Banner.
https://security.tennessee.edu/login-banners/
This need for a warning login banner is sometimes called a myth in INFO SEC. But if it is a myth it’s a VERY old one.
1990 NIST - Defense Data Network Security Bulletin:
b. A court recently threw out a suit against a computer system intruder because the logon prompt was preceded with “Welcome to…”.
https://ftp.st.ryukoku.ac.jp/pub/security/ciac/secdocs/ddn/ddn-9004.txt ftp://ciac.llnl.gov/pub/ciac/secdocs/ddn/ddn-9004.txt