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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by xkeysc0re on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:13PM (#28752780)
I'm curious as to what law, exactly, they would be breaking. Sabotage in the US code is defined mostly in terms of war material and damages done to physical "national defense" properties. Certainly an employee would be fired and sued by the company, but is deliberately changing a routing policy (and not something like a worm or virus that deletes or otherwise degrades hardware and software) a crime?
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by bawolff on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:19PM (#28752864)
IANAL but I would assume computer fraud and abuse act:

(5)(a)knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;

Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by xkeysc0re on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:00PM (#28754342)
In the cases cited under the CFAA (such as https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=124545279862007...) it seems the employee deleted data and private info. In this case, no data was deleted or other computing property damaged it just became unreachable.
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by pwdisswordfish0 on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:02PM (#28753960)
The recent Van Buren decision would make that unlikely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389500

Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by ironlion624 on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:22PM (#28752907)
That’s the one.
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by ironlion624 on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:21PM (#28752896)
Proof of intent is a significant burden placed upon prosecution. If that can be overcome, there’s legal precedent for criminal conviction namely under the CFAA.

https://tadlaw.com/can-charged-crime-sabotaging-employers-co...