> he has been sentenced to 21 months in a federal prison for transmitting a command that caused damage without authorisation to a protected computer
I'm genuinely curious, is this the actual charge? What specific law did he break here?
I'm genuinely curious, is this the actual charge? What specific law did he break here?
Edit: He plead to I think a single count of the following 18:1030(a)(5)(A) and 18:1030(c)(4)(A)(i)(I) and (B)
http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020160411834/U.S.%...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
It's a perfectly reasonable principle to write into law, a password or key or whatever doesn't give an employee the right to damage the systems of their employer.