Re:Inside the Mind of Thru-Hiking's Devious Con Man
by jpatokal on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:28PM
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But the edits are not libelous: he's a convicted criminal and even the mugshot is (presumably) and actual one. I'm not sure a judge would grant a lot in damages for injury to his career as a con man...
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Re:Inside the Mind of Thru-Hiking's Devious Con Man
by Bartweiss on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:15AM
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Libelous doesn't matter; the CFAA only cares if you accessed a protected computer and obtained information or caused damage. And getting the password from the account owner may not matter either since the protected machine belongs to Facebook - Facebook v. Power Ventures held that user account access isn't enough.
I agree that a suit or damages would be unlikely, but that's only at the discretion of judges; the basic CFAA violation here is unambiguous.