[126088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Terry Childs conviction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Thu Apr 29 22:05:40 2010
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1272592123.11125.5.camel@enterprise.starfleet.mil>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:05:14 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 21:48 -0400, David Krider wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:47 -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
> > Surely even at DeVry they teach that if you refuse to hand over
> > passwords for property that is not legally yours, that you are
> > committing a crime. I mean, think about it, it's effectively theft, in
> > the same sense that if you refuse to hand over the keys for a car that
> > you don't own, you're committing theft of an automobile.
>
> I've seen a dismissed employee withhold a password. The owner of the
> company threatened legal action, considering it, like you, theft. My
> father-in-law is an attorney, so I asked him about the situation. He
> said that it wouldn't be called "theft," rather "illegal control."
Same difference, he still committed a crime and anyone who is defending
him seems to not understand this. Whatever we want to call that crime,
it's still a crime, and he got the appropriate penalty.
William
