Jul 082016
 

We know that people do this, and it is a risk, and now it’s a federal offense.

By Jason Koebler at Motherboard.com…

One of the nation’s most powerful appeals courts ruled Wednesday that sharing passwords can be a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a catch-all “hacking” law that has been widely used to prosecute behavior that bears no resemblance to hacking.

Source: Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules | Motherboard

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