Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper needs to be fired and banned from practicing law. Odds are she's having an affair of her own if she responded with this crap. Go away lady.
Hacking Statute Could Jail Man for Reading Wife's Email
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Yes.The Ambrosian said:You got meThe_root_of_all_evil said:
OT: My friends forget to sign out of their facebook/hotmail on my computer all the time, and when it auto-logs onto theirs, and I see their recent mail, am I a hacker?
Now spill the beans, you're obviously highly trained, what hacking dojo did you study your technique at?
I know most of us Americans are pretty stupid, but if being able to read and being moderately observant makes you a hacker, we're all in a lot of trouble. I don't even see how this law can be used effectively to prosecute the poor bastard, it's probably some over ambitious prosecutor trying to make their big cash case. Jury should throw this one out no problem.
Because stupid shit only ever happens in America.ShadowsofHope said:
This is some retard lawyer trying to rage-jail a husband who discovered his wife was cheating, I'm sure he won't go to jail. Don't generalize.
Unless the judge is a complete retard, this should not go through. After all, the computer is likely owned by both of them, and Gmail can 'save a password', so he could have just accessed Gmail and found the name and password already there for him (or by typing in his wife's e-ml name.)
Everyone thinks this is ridiculous, but laws like this are fairly common place. For instance, it is a federal crime punishable by up to 20 years in jail if you sign something without reading it. These laws exist so law enforcement agencies have ways of catching people they want to catch, even if it's not for what they want to catch them for. Al Capone and the prohibition is another fine example. He was a murderer and mobster, and everyone thinks it's so funny he got away with these things but got caught for "tax evasion". The truth is, he got caught brewing alcoholic beverages. The way prohibition was enforced was they placed a tax on the goods used for brewing such as hops and barley, and this tax was so ridiculous that no one could afford to pay them.
The moral of the story, no one is safe from John Law when he has you in his sights.
On topic, the law is rather stupid and clearly not meant to be used in a situation like this. Law makers also have a habit of leaving the definitions of laws rather open so they can be used whenever necessary, ad nauseum. While this man clearly invaded her privacy, he did not "hack" into her account by any means. The definition of hacking is to devise or modify (a computer program), usually skillfully. He didn't do this at all as it turns out, otherwise we are all proper fucked.
Good luck fella, my guess would be that she was two timing everyone with a cop of some sort.
The moral of the story, no one is safe from John Law when he has you in his sights.
On topic, the law is rather stupid and clearly not meant to be used in a situation like this. Law makers also have a habit of leaving the definitions of laws rather open so they can be used whenever necessary, ad nauseum. While this man clearly invaded her privacy, he did not "hack" into her account by any means. The definition of hacking is to devise or modify (a computer program), usually skillfully. He didn't do this at all as it turns out, otherwise we are all proper fucked.
Good luck fella, my guess would be that she was two timing everyone with a cop of some sort.
each time i hear about one of those articles, in the USA most of the time, wierd coincidence; i'm every time more amazed of the human "progress" throught stupidity, it really has no boundaries! which can be a dangerous thing, just check out the history of humans.
I bet the wife is just pissed because she got caught cheating. Even more so that she left her password out in the open and so easy to get.
Well it does my heart good that alot of people picked up on the "highly-trained hacker," garbage.
Seriously In no way shape or form is finding someones login/pw hacking. Neither is auto logging in after someone and getting into their accounts. Hell using a keylogger is not even really hacking. Hacking denotes bypassing the need for login credentials all together. Hacking is not something my 80 year old grandmother can do by accident.
Yes its an invasion of privacy. But for the love of god please, dont make retarded laws when you cant even understand the language involved in the law your writing because all it accomplishes when you misuse the language in such a manner is you give the general public a false impression of what your talking about and its increasingly getting to the point where it feels like there is a conscious effort by government and lawmakers to try to put the internet genie back in its bottle by scaring people.
Honestly when I hear about things like this I cant help but to imagine a new incarnation of the salem witch trials for the digital age is just on the horizon.
Seriously In no way shape or form is finding someones login/pw hacking. Neither is auto logging in after someone and getting into their accounts. Hell using a keylogger is not even really hacking. Hacking denotes bypassing the need for login credentials all together. Hacking is not something my 80 year old grandmother can do by accident.
Yes its an invasion of privacy. But for the love of god please, dont make retarded laws when you cant even understand the language involved in the law your writing because all it accomplishes when you misuse the language in such a manner is you give the general public a false impression of what your talking about and its increasingly getting to the point where it feels like there is a conscious effort by government and lawmakers to try to put the internet genie back in its bottle by scaring people.
Honestly when I hear about things like this I cant help but to imagine a new incarnation of the salem witch trials for the digital age is just on the horizon.
wtf.
there is just so much facepalm in this....
god dammit. america. i live in you and enjoy you very much, but god dammit this is just utter ridiculous. kudos to the guy for doing what he did in the manner that he did it. seriously.
there is just so much facepalm in this....
god dammit. america. i live in you and enjoy you very much, but god dammit this is just utter ridiculous. kudos to the guy for doing what he did in the manner that he did it. seriously.
No way around it: Ms. Cooper is an idiot. This man is in no way a hacker if all he did was pick up a notebook with the password written in it.
And that statute is so broad that it's not even funny. Hopefully the idiots in the prosecutors office lose this case and both the statute gets re-examined and tightened a bit, and they send a certain prosecutor back to elementary school so she can maybe learn some commons sense.
And that statute is so broad that it's not even funny. Hopefully the idiots in the prosecutors office lose this case and both the statute gets re-examined and tightened a bit, and they send a certain prosecutor back to elementary school so she can maybe learn some commons sense.
If you're reading your spouse's email, that's definitely an invasion of privacy. It's just as bad as reading someone else's mail without their permission. Letters that could be opened by hand, far easier than reading the password in a book.
Maybe calling him a "hacker" is stupid, but there should be a some legislation protecting people's private correspondence from online burglary.
Maybe calling him a "hacker" is stupid, but there should be a some legislation protecting people's private correspondence from online burglary.
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I believe it said the prosecuting attorney was female, actually.Nurb said:Once again, wrinkley old white men who couldn't work a potato don't know what they hell they're talking about and screwing over regular people.
Like this guy.. this guy right here. Also I doubt this would be used against a woman who found her husband cheating.
Goddammit Michigan, stop making vague laws that allow this bullshit to happen!