Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist

Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist
John Leyden, The Register 2003-03-18

A University of Texas student has been charged with hacking offences following a computer break-in at the university earlier this month that lead to the disclosure of 55,200 past and present University of Texas faculty members and students.

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Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist 2003-03-18
Anonymous

I hope he gets a good lawyer...

This is silly considering he was issued an account that had access to the database.

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Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist 2003-03-18
Anonymous (2 replies)

Access does not imply authority.

For example, does a housesitter have authority to take financial/bank information from inside the house they are watching? Access to items inside the house does not grant authority to take them....

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Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist 2003-03-18
Anonymous

housesitter has a different kind of deal/trust relationship..

but what kind of professional DBA or any kind of admin give authority to someone with the thought in his/her mind that "why worry? who would go do *what the student did* something like that"?

silly.. they should get some responsible a...

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Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist 2003-03-19
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yeah sure, but the charge doesnt consider it as a misuse of access but as "unauthorised access to a protected computer and using the Social Security number of another person to commit a federal offence"

as far as i concerne i dont see him hack anything - the fact that he could read this informati...

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