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Is password-lending a cybercrime?
Mark Rasch, 2004-03-01

A judge's wrongheaded interpretation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act illustrates the problems of allowing civil enforcement of a criminal law.

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Is password-lending a cybercrime? 2004-03-02
IT Security Consultant
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 a...

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