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Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime?
Hugh Pickens writes "The Detroit Free Press reports that Leon Walker is charged with unlawfully reading the e-mail of Ciara Walker, his wife at that time, which showed she was having an affair with her second husband, who once had been arrested for beating her in front of her son. Walker says he gave the e-mails to her first husband, the child's father, to protect the boy. 'I was doing what I had to do,' says Walker. 'We're talking about putting a child in danger.' Now prosecutors, relying on a Michigan statute typically used to prosecute crimes such as identity theft or stealing trade secrets, have charged Leon Walker with a felony for logging onto a laptop in the home he shared with his wife. Prosecutor Jessica Cooper defended her decision to charge Walker. 'The guy is a hacker,' says Cooper, adding that the Gmail account 'was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained. Then he downloaded [the emails] and used them in a very contentious way.'"
Pre-nap? You mean I'm bound by things I said before I first slept with her? Oh god.
DUDE, Reading is hacking, don't you know anything about the US Legal term for hacking?!?
"he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained."
Perhaps he's an MCSE??
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Wait, are we asking whether reading your spouse's email IS a crime (in Michigan, at least), or whether it OUGHT to be a crime?
This is slashdot. Laws are irrelevant here. Just stick IMHO in front of everything, including this paragraph, and you'll be fine.
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he successfully used a computer, which makes him a nerd. The prosecutor is a chick, and chicks hate nerds.
>My wife has the password for my email account.
hand over your geek badge, please
Please, don't give the junk mail senders ideas for their next lobbying move.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Prosecutor Jessica Cooper is totally lame and would not know what a real hacker is if she said "he had wonderful skills" vs he had mad skillz. Typical know-nothing government official.
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DUDE, Reading is hacking, don't you know anything about the US Legal term for hacking?!?
Given the state of large parts of the US educational system, I think reading could qualify as "wonderful skills" and being "highly trained".
IT IS SO EASY. all you need to do is to grab a laptop which some idiot have logged into a website with autologin cookies and YOU ARE A HACKER !!!
so thinks a moron, who somehow ended up as prosecutor in united states of america, random state. tells millions about the quality of education in usa (helloo capitalism) and justice system. (hi again capitalism)
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This might come as a surprise but to get married, you have to meet a girl. To meet a girl, you have to leave your mom's basement. So most Slashdotters will never understand the joys and pains of marriage.
Pretty accurate. It's ridiculous how much the US legal system is biased in favor of women.
Shit like this is a great example of why I will never get married. You can't trust a woman farther than you can throw an AT-AT.
Actually, your last sentence is a great example of why you'll never get married.