Imagine, you work for a company and you know you're going to quit, so just before you do so, you go through the...

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Imagine, you work for a company and you know you're going to quit, so just before you do so, you go through the folders on your computer and delete works-in-progress, drafts, snippets on information or personal emails. The company decides you've destroyed their content and turns you into the police. You're then tried for hacking under a federal statute and face up to 10 years in prison.

Not that my scenario has anything to do with the man in this story, but it's a scenario most of us have run across over the years.

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/hacker-lexicon-computer-fraud-abuse-act/
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/admin-faces-felony-deleting-files-flawed-hacking-law/

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Jeff Chapman said…
They'd need evidence to prove it... Which would likely be backups... Which would mean they still have the content... Which would remove the issue...
June 4, 2016 at 5:47 AM
Jeff Chapman said…
In the article the tech made a dick move in deleting those backups but it states they were replicated elsewhere... It could have been an attempt to ensure adequate space for new backups prior to the company getting a new tech but doesn't seem like it from the article.
June 4, 2016 at 5:56 AM
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