Man Convicted of Hacking Despite Not Hacking

Re:Man Convicted of Hacking Despite Not Hacking by snake_plissken on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:22PM (#5609286)

Ok, exactly what did he do that is illegal: He paid another company's employees to get information from said company's database, and that these employees accessed the data by using some other employee's login credentials without permission?

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Re:Man Convicted of Hacking Despite Not Hacking by mpyne on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:07PM (#5609530)

Well, "industrial espionage" actually is a crime since 1996, no matter what tools you use to do it (and notably, has the harshest sentence of the 3 major types of crimes Nosal was charged with).

Unauthorized access to a computer network was made to help complete the crime, which is itself criminal, just like there is a charge "mail fraud" that makes use of the postal system to further any criminal act illegal.

Conspiracy is always illegal itself as well.

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Re:Man Convicted of Hacking Despite Not Hacking by snake_plissken on Thursday April 25, 2013 @04:38PM (#5609704)

thank you. i couldn't recall the exact words, but yeah this is classic industrial espionage

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