Surely the point here is if you share your userid and password you're potentially committing or facilitating a felony, only if the person using your userid and password does so in order to gain some benefit from the action or cause loss or damage to the system which they access.

In this case I agree with the Judges decision, you should never share a userid and password with another party even if its only to read the news on an online web site.

Identify theft is a growing crime and allowing these actions only serves to make the task of maintaining computer security even harder.


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