QUOTE(Gilby @ Mar 13 2006, 04:35 PM)
What's the big deal about this? If they can prove the newspaper got into the website when it wasn't supposed to...it's theft of services. It is illegal.
The website was set up with certain access rights. The newspaper did not have access. They wanted access, found someone who could give it to them, and used it.
It was wrong. You can call it hacking, you can call it whatever you want. It is still wrong. The owners of the website did not want them to have access. To gain access to this information is illegal.
The access codes are probably given out individually to a person/group. Someone who isn't in that group and still used their passwords can fall under "Identity Theft".
The correct thing the website should have done is try to limit IP addresses if they are accessed by certain people in combination with the username/password combination.
Both parties are at fault there. The person who had access and gave it to them and the people who used it. They have to get the computers to trace past history and logs. Yes, you can delete your "history" in your browser - but you cannot easily erase the logs of what you do.
Very well stated!
If someone crack into these guys computers and put the information out there.... they'd be pissed.
