Show HN: DontBore – Accessible, fast, low-footprint Login sharing for the masses

Re:Show HN: DontBore – Accessible, fast, low-footprint Login... by WallyFunk on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:22PM (#35670075)

I guess I have to ask: is this a legal grey area? The UK claims sharing of things like Netflix passwords is illegal[0]. That said, people pay for Netflix, so they wouldn't be dumping those creds on sites like this for all to plunder.

But I still think we need more of these 'skeleton key' type sites, not just one. It's great that it's open source and on GitHub[1] and I encourage as many people as possible to host their own instance.

We can't afford another BugMeNot type shutdown. The Internet needs these types of sites badly, even though it's a possible legal grey area (Don't forget pass sharing is forbidden in some ToS).

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/password-sharing-illegal-gov...

[1] https://github.com/midzer/dontbore/

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Re:Show HN: DontBore – Accessible, fast, low-footprint Login... by dorilama on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:32PM (#35671101)

password sharing has been removed from the mentioned webpage of IPO [0]

[0]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/meta-counterfeit-...

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Re:Show HN: DontBore – Accessible, fast, low-footprint Login... by traceroute66 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @06:44PM (#35671584)

> The UK claims sharing of things like Netflix passwords is illegal[0].

The newspaper article you linked to mentions the ICO talking about copyright law.

Personally I think it would be more of a clear-cut case under the UK Computer Misuse Act, "Unauthorised access to computer material":

   A person is guilty of an offence if—
   (a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer or to enable any such access to be secured;
   (b) the access he intends to secure, or to enable to be secured, is unauthorised; and
   (c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.

And in terms of somebody operating a password sharing website, "Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in offence":

   (1)A person is guilty of an offence if he makes, adapts, supplies or offers to supply any article intending it to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1, 3 or 3ZA
   (2)A person is guilty of an offence if he supplies or offers to supply any article believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1, 3 or 3ZA
   (3)A person is guilty of an offence if he obtains any article—
   (a)intending to use it to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1, 3 or 3ZA, or
   (b)with a view to]its being supplied for use to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under [F21section 1, 3 or 3ZA].
   (4)In this section “ article ” includes any program or data held in electronic form.

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Re:Show HN: DontBore – Accessible, fast, low-footprint Login... by zokier on Saturday April 22, 2023 @07:01PM (#35671692)

Using these sorts of shared credentials could be construed as unauthorized access, which would definitely be legal gray area.

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