"Egor, stop hacking Github"

Re:"Egor, stop hacking Github" by JangoSteve on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:39PM (#3664382)

It's more of a legal grey area I think. If I climb through an unlocked window of a company to enter a restricted area for which I don't have access, and then write (or piss) on the wall, I think it still counts as breaking and entering. Or trespassing and vandalism at least.

I don't think I'm going to take this analogy any further though; things get dangerous when you base an argument entirely on analogy.

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Re:"Egor, stop hacking Github" by Drbble on Sunday March 04, 2012 @07:52PM (#3664824)

It's obviously not "breaking". In fact "breaking" is the difference between burglary and theft, and theft insurance is way more expensive than burglary insurance (which I experienced today reading an insurance offer) , because theft is nearly impossible to prove and usually due to the victim's negligence.

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Re:"Egor, stop hacking Github" by JangoSteve on Monday March 05, 2012 @04:07AM (#3665957)

In the legal sense, you don't need to literally break something for it to be breaking in entering.

From the legal-dictionary [1]:

breaking and entering v., n. entering a residence or other enclosed property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without authorization. If there is intent to commit a crime, this is burglary. If there is no such intent, the breaking and entering alone is probably at least illegal trespass, which is a misdemeanor crime.

[1] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/breaking+and+e...

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Re:"Egor, stop hacking Github" by Drbble on Friday March 16, 2012 @03:28AM (#3712367)

Ah, sorry. Insurance underwriter takes a different view than criminal law, I guess.

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Re:"Egor, stop hacking Github" by ktizo on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:59PM (#3664466)

I wonder what the Young's modulus of an analogy is ;)

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