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Call yourself a 'hacker', watch your ex-boss seize your PC without warning
The Register ^
| 10/23/2013
| John Leyden
Posted on 10/24/2013 6:14:50 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Do you suspect as I do...that a butcher would want to be very very careful about using the word Hacking....or the word hack for that matter when discussing his profession with anyone on the net....?
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:19:22 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
To: markomalley
If it’s the company’s computer, that is their right.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:19:47 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: markomalley
To: markomalley
you do not need special skills to destroy evidence quickly. just a screw driver and a hammer.
software is a black art to most of society. hell, most of them are mystified by the mouse
meanwhile, it would make sense to never be w-2 with any company... just subcontract and be done with it
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:21:09 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: markomalley
WE'RE THE GOPe AND WE'RE HERE TO...WELL...WE'RE THE GOPe... 
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:28:44 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Caipirabob
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:29:01 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Jonty30
Well, it wasn’t their computer so it isn’t their right.
But they got an ignorant judge to sign off on it so there you go.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:39:33 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
To: Caipirabob
Is that Lindsey Graham in the very back?
To: sten
You don’t even really need those tools if you have a rare earth magnet to throw on your drive.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:47:45 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: markomalley
A$$holes. The word “Hacker” means a person who spends a lot of time at the computer, working to get a program to work. When the media first heard the word several years ago, naturally it didn’t understand it, and gave it the meaning of “person trying to break into a computer.”
They still are a$$holes.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:48:20 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: posterchild
In this context, I’m not sure there is a functional difference between a cracker and a hacker.
The person is publicly declaring he has the necessary skill set to do either, and that’s what the argument came down to: Did he have the ability, and was he likely to do more damage to the company with what was on his computer, then cover the tracks? He says he did and he was, so it was reasonable to take him at his word.
This case covers some novel ground because, as the article states, it doesn’t meet the legal test for a restraining order. Maybe the Judge thought that a declaration of “being a hacker” was sufficient historical behavior?
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:51:33 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
To: posterchild; Caipirabob
Is that Lindsey Graham in the very back?
Not sure, but Obama is driving.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:52:49 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: Jonty30
I’ve got an old hard drive here on the shelf that I took out of the computer when it went to hell and I dumped the computer at an electronics store.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:54:18 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Nik Naym
Well, it wasn’t their computer so it isn’t their right. Doesn't have to be if it's their Intellectual Property on it.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:54:52 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
To: I want the USA back
Fully automatic assault computer Hacker.
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:55:16 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: cripplecreek
I have a couple, too. I ordered an adapter so I can copy their images through a USB port. I suppose I’ll get on that project this weekend...
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posted on
10/24/2013 6:57:10 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
To: Cyber Liberty
“Doesn’t have to be if it’s their Intellectual Property on it. “
But how do they know/prove that it is their intellectual property on it?
You need probable cause for a search. They can’t just go fishing around someone’s hard drive to see what they can find.
But apparently bragging that one is a skilled computer programmer is enough probable cause for an ill informed judge.
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posted on
10/24/2013 7:02:08 PM PDT
by
Nik Naym
(It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
To: markomalley
so anyone can spoof an email from you with you saying you’re a hacker and there goes your cmputers. great.
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posted on
10/24/2013 7:07:05 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Caipirabob
LMAO! No, it applies to each and every thread!
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posted on
10/24/2013 7:08:58 PM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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