The original owners did not lose their credit card numbers. Therefore it's not theft, it's unauthorised copying! I'm surprised that this is pointed out so many times under articles about file sharing, but not in cases like this.
It depends on what legal definition of theft you take. In the British legal system Oxford v Moss established that copying information without physically taking the physical media is not theft. However there is the principle in R v Beecham shows that once the 'value' or 'virtue' of something is gone, even if you return it, you may have committed theft since the property is no longer of use to the owner. So copying a CD, the value of the original item still has it's value. If I take your credit card out of your wallet, post the details on here and then return it, it is now essentially useless to you as a credit card. Now defining appropriation in the context of cyber crime is even more of a headache...
It didn't crash, a worm just caused a popup to appear infront of the navigation software, rendering it useless! But don't worry, I hear USDOD SP1 disables the service that is prone to this!
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The original owners did not lose their credit card numbers. Therefore it's not theft, it's unauthorised copying! I'm surprised that this is pointed out so many times under articles about file sharing, but not in cases like this.
It depends on what legal definition of theft you take. In the British legal system Oxford v Moss established that copying information without physically taking the physical media is not theft. However there is the principle in R v Beecham shows that once the 'value' or 'virtue' of something is gone, even if you return it, you may have committed theft since the property is no longer of use to the owner. So copying a CD, the value of the original item still has it's value. If I take your credit card out of your wallet, post the details on here and then return it, it is now essentially useless to you as a credit card. Now defining appropriation in the context of cyber crime is even more of a headache...
...now I can see how much money I have saved!
It didn't crash, a worm just caused a popup to appear infront of the navigation software, rendering it useless! But don't worry, I hear USDOD SP1 disables the service that is prone to this!
Mr Shell comes along, buys the company and disbands the project and says "nothing to see here.. move along..."
Procrastination is just like masturbation... in the end you're just screwing yourself...