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Legally Defining "Unauthorized" Computer Access
SDuane writes "Orin S. Kerr, Associate Professor at George Washington University Law School, has written an article trying to answer the question "what does it mean to 'access' a computer? And when is access 'unauthorized'?" It's long, but interesting and he's looking for feedback."
Does /.'ting a server count as unauthorized use? Because then, we should be a bit worried here...
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
..but the computer can't say no, I thought it wanted me to access it, honest!
posting "1 4/\/\ 0wnz0ring j00!!!!!! luser!!!! FEE KEVIN" on their website, qualifies.
If RIAA comes looking for the MP3's that aren't on my computer and in the process even look at a single byte of the copyrighted data on my hard drive, that is unauthorized. BTW, that data is available under perfectly reasonable license terms. I charge $1/Kb. I have 2 80Gb drives. The $160,000,000 is payable in advance, thank you.
Since when does an articles length matter?? Nobody reads them anyway, this is /. :)
Woah, there. Ethernet is serial, I have an Ethernet connection from my NAT box to my cable modem. Therefore I only have one PC communicating with (AKA "hooked up to") the ISP at at time.
HA!
-Peter
SYN: (may I access this tcp port?)
SYN ACK: (sure go ahead!)
ACK: (thanks!)