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Hacking-by-subpoena ruled illegal
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-29

Issuing an egregiously overbroad subpoena for stored e-mail qualifies as a computer intrusion in violation of anti-hacking laws, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, deciding a case in which a litigant in a civil matter subpoenaed every single piece of e-mail his courtroom adversary sent or received.

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Hacking-by-subpoena ruled illegal 2003-09-02
Timothy Smith <tgsmith (at) grouch (dot) com [email concealed]>
It is the responsibility of the party seeking the information with the Court's sanction to act ethically. It is patently ludicrous to expect a service provider to function as a check against abuse of process. To go one step further, it is also ludicrous that we have reached the point that overly b...

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