A US court has turned down an appeal from a man convicted of computer hacking offences for using a workplace computer to post nude pictures of himself onto a swingers website.Details at the link, but it seems the gentleman in question used the following, elite hacker skillz: he used his browser to upload a picture.
Anti-Hacking laws. Srlsy.
Mark Rasch, a former federal prosecutor of computer crimes turned computer security consultant, said it would have been better to fire Wolf than drag him through the courts. "His uploading of nude pictures is certainly inappropriate and something he could be terminated for, but it was perfectly legal," Rasch told Wired. "When you use the heavy hand of the criminal law to prosecute inappropriate behavior, it’s just an abuse of the criminal statutes."Well yeah. Cue P.J. O'Rourke: giving money and power to the government is like giving booze and car keys to teenagers.
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