Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s...
by tedivm on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:06PM
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> Be careful with the claim that a "protest" makes something legal.
No one made that claim.
Re:Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after s...
by onphonenow on Monday December 13, 2021 @03:16AM
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There was a claim that because this was a protest it was OK to use code to flood a website with applications.
For anyone who has paid attention to CFAA if you have a computer used in interstate commerce and someone 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, then whamo, down you go.
This code that has been written to disrupt the operations of this business (Kellog) if it does disrupt their operations and they complain, the person knowingly transmitting it is at risk.
Again, calling something a protest is not a free pass.
A bunch of trump supports went to Washington to "protest" - not turning out very well for them. Similarly with many other protests (BLM etc etc), folks getting picked up breaking windows, stealing, burning down buildings etc - they don't get off free because it's a protest or there is not something in the law that makes calling something illegal a protest legal.