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Teenager Charged for Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 23 2018, @10:31AM   
from the available!=permitted dept.

"exec" writes:

A 19 year old teenager was charged with 'unauthorized use of a computer' after downloading over 7,000 records from the Nova Scotia Freedom-of-Information web portal. The teenager whose name has not been released, has been accused of stealing documents from the portal, with many of them being publicly accessible and redacted.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teenager-charged-for-nova-scotia-freedom-of-information-web-portal-breach/

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• Re:Whew Re:Whew (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 23 2018, @11:16AM (1 child)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday April 23 2018, @11:16AM (#670681) Journal

  Except - this young knucklehead didn't really "hack" anything. He simply downloaded a bunch of stuff that was freely accessible. But, yeah, he's got to be punished.

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• Re:Whew (Score: 4, Insightful) by RS3 on Monday April 23 2018, @01:26PM

  by RS3 (6367) on Monday April 23 2018, @01:26PM (#670727)

  Yeah, I wish Congress would pass a law stating that _ANY_ URL / URI formed is fair game.

  And no, it is _not_ the same as taking a penny you found on the ground.

  It is the same as reading a newspaper you found laying on the ground, or taking a picture of said newspaper. No physical thing has been taken.

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