Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ...
by Spivak on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:25PM
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Because servers don't decide anything. They're autonomous systems imperfectly carrying out the will of humans who make the actual authorization decisions. If a computer system erroneously prints an extra 0 on a check mailed out to you that doesn't mean you get to keep the money because the computer isn't the entity that decides how much money you're owed.
Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ...
by dragonwriter on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:04PM
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> Because servers don't decide anything.
If there was no decision, much less one based on materially false information, there can be no charge related to false pretenses. Your argument against decisionmaking is an argument against your claim of false pretenses.
> If a computer system erroneously prints an extra 0 on a check mailed out to you that doesn't mean you get to keep the money because the computer isn't the entity that decides how much money you're owed.
That's neither entirely true nor at all relevant to your false pretenses claim.
Sure, but how is that relevant? What material false representation was made which was relied on in deciding to provide the data?