Inside the Mind of Thru-Hiking's Devious Con Man

Re:Inside the Mind of Thru-Hiking's Devious Con Man by pcl on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:03PM (#15595681)

Is there any case law on this? In particular, I wonder what establishes ownership of an account. For example, I know people who share email accounts. How does the law distinguish the two cases?

If Alice were to go after Bob for logging in with credentials to an account she created, things seem pretty simple. But it seems difficult for Facebook to determine whether Alice and Bob are ok with a shared account or not. And even more so for the government to determine if it's ok for Bob to use those credentials.

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Re:Inside the Mind of Thru-Hiking's Devious Con Man by c22 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:20PM (#15595801)

Facebook doesn't have to determine whether Bob and Alice are okay sharing an account because doing so is already expressly prohibited by their terms of service[0]:

> "You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account."

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

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Re:Inside the Mind of Thru-Hiking's Devious Con Man by pcl on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:37PM (#15595907)

Well, sure, but fraud is a criminal charge, not a ToS violation.

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