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Its technically hacking due to it not being your account. Unauthorized access.
That's still not hacking. It's "unauthorized access" like you said, or "gaining access". Hacking requires bypassing some security measure or obtaining access through some technological or social engineering means.
you’re taking this splitting hairs to the moon today aren’t you, little troll.
Talk about a hard derail to burry the lead.
Troll? Where the hell are you coming from?
So you have an issue with me arguing that people gaining access to this information are not breaking the law?
Or having the FBI leak your password and you using it without authorization. Legally it 100% falls under hacking in the USA.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/hacking
First sentence. You don't have to have stolen the password, if you login to another account, and someone proves you did, you can be charged if they want to pursue it.
We can rule out "illicit" because the FBI published the data publicly. Now the heavy lifting has to be done by "unconventional", which I don't think qualifies here. A government agency published the credentials, which means no one had to do social engineering, sneak into an office, reverse engineer anything, or even guess a person's birthday.
Now if this somehow went to court, a judge might rule that this qualifies as hacking, but my opinion is that it doesn't.
that's still hacking. hacking is gaining unauthorized access to a system through:
of the three the first is BY FAR the most common and efficient. it's also the least sexy so they don't make movies about it and the public perception is that it's something else
I agree with what you said. This also wasn't social engineering. The password was just there and available.
Also, the excellent and amazing movie Hackers features plenty of social engineering.
Also, I didn't say "excellent" and "amazing" sarcastically. It really is an under rated movie.
It was there, doesn't mean it was for you. If you found a car with the keys in it, would you steal it or realize you shouldn't do that?
Is it a nice car?
Yeah but if I did, no one would say I hotwired the car.
Its still grand theft, hotwired or keys. That's the whole point 😅
It's two different things being argued about: the legal term "hacking" vs the every day language term, which I believe implies something more specific than "unauthorized access", something where technical or social skills were used to gain that access.
That's the parallel I was trying to draw by mentioning the word "hotwiring" instead of "stealing". It would be like if the legal term for stealing a car was "hotwiring".
That said, I did see that the OP of this tangent is actually trying to argue the "this isn't illegal" angle rather than the difference between legal terms and broader language terms.
I agree this falls under the legal definition of hacking, but I also agree with those basically saying that this falls outside of the way they think the term should be used. It waters down its meaning.
Legally it's called hacking.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/hacking
The base legal definition of "hacking" is "unauthorized access". Then the trick becomes establishing "unauthorized". The reason this matters is if a website is publicly accessible, then it's assumed to be authorized even though it's not explicitly stated by anyone. However, you are accessing information on a computer system you do not own and were not given explicit permission to access.
Now let's say in the HTML or JS there's an endpoint to a backend server that's not directly exposed via online searches or page links. And through that link you are able to expose sensitive data that's not shown on the webpage.
Now, how is the definition of "unauthorized access" or "hacking" applied here?
Edit: yes this is splitting atoms, but that's the world of legal definitions
Bro, stfu and move on. Its "hacking" in every legal definition.
Don't like being wrong, eh?
Harassment charges.
Says the asshole throwing out accusations of csam because they don't like being contradicted.
Unauthorized access is hacking.
Doesn't matter if a person has a computer with no password at all. If you are on their computer and you are not authorized to use their computer that is a crime.
So your claim is that if I sit down at a computer that isn't mine and has no security measures in place, and then open a file, that I have legally "hacked" the computer?
The minimal definition you can fall back to is "unauthorized access". But now you have to establish and argue that an unsecured computer/system is off limits to everyone except the owner. Which then opens up a big can of worms with network connected devices, and demonstrates that such basic and literal verbatim interpretation doesn't work in reality.
That's not 'my claim.' That's the law.
You can call it hacking or whatever. The legal term is: unauthorized access to a computer system.
Think about it in any other way? So I'm just walking down the street... I see a house.. I go open a door.. I open the fridge. Make myself a sandwich. Then go to a bedroom that's not mine. Put on some underwear that isn't mine and leave some stains on the sheets...
Why don't you just go rape somebody? And clearly you have authorization to access that vagina or that butthole or mouth or however your fetish desires???
Just tell me you've been on Epstein's Island.... Jfc? Wtf is wrong with you, CeeBee_Eh?
If i give someone my bank details and passwords and they empty my account, can I claim I've been hacked?
No.
What part of "unauthorized access" is so difficult for people to understand?
How is authorization determined?
Probably by giving out your account details.
So, Epstein has given out his account details by putting them in an email.
Were those details only used by the people he directly sent them to?
Can dead men either provide or deny authorisation?
Can dead men get hacked?
You can. You violated the TOS by sharing the details, making it exceptionally easy for them to hack you, then they did.
A TOS violation is not the same as breaking the law. If that were the case then every single person on the face on the planet would be a criminal.
You didn't break the law, just violated a contract. The user you gave your credentials to violated the law, because the contract you signed stipulated that permission for them to access your account was not yours to give. That means they accessed your account in an unauthorized manner, which meets the definition of hacking.
I am not trying to argue the merits of what does and doesn't constitute hacking, but these terms have objective, legal definitions in the jurisdictions they're taking place. We don't have to like or agree with those things, but it doesn't change the current situation that has them set up this way.
The account holder violated the contract. The "hacker" has no agreement so they violated nothing. They found a key on the ground and used it in a lock.
That maybe a philosophy held by some, such as to say walking into a house with a door swinging open should not count as trespassing, but I don't know of anywhere where the law is set up that way, though I'm not very familiar with the laws in a ton of countries. Where I live, though, going somewhere uninvited counts as trespassing regardless of how many or few barriers there are to it. So, if you parachute into a secured vault with razorwire all around it with no trespassing signs everywhere, that's the same crime as stepping in someone's lawn that with a sign that says "please keep off the grass".
I think the part that you're finding galling is that many of us have a notion of hacking as as using a varied set of skills that are difficult to master towards bypassing complex security to gain access to locations or data. This contrasts greatly with the legal definition of that word, which can include those things, but really is so broad as to include going anywhere you weren't supposed to with a computer. I imagine technical people especially might feel like calling someone that just logged in with someone else's account information a hacker is insulting to the practice of hacking, but the legal system, at least in my country (USA) does just that.
The door was unlocked, officer!
Richard chase vibes
Well yes. It would be "unlawful entry" (or whatever it's called) versus "breaking and entering".
@FBI this guy has illegal shit on their computer. Probably child porn.