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In a 2-1 ruling, an appellate court ruled "Employees may be prosecuted under a federal antihacking statute for taking computer files that they were authorized to access and using them in a manner prohibited by the company, a federal appeals court has ruled."
At issue is whether or not the employer has specific rules about computer access, and if the "employee has knowledge of the employer’s limitations on that authorization, the employee ‘exceeds authorized access’ when the employee violates those limitations" said employee is deep in the fecal matter.
Apparently the same circuit court ruled the opposite last year on the same law when the employer did not have specific data access rules in place. "Exceeding authorized access" is the issue at hand.
The dissenting judge wrote that "under the majority’s ruling, “any person who obtains information from any computer connected to the internet, in violation of her employer’s computer-use restrictions, is guilty of a federal crime.”"
There are some nasty ramifications to this, and basically if an employer asked me to do some work on my home system in my own time, I would definitely get it in writing and file that sucker away some place safe in case the law comes a-knockin'.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/no-hacking-required/
At issue is whether or not the employer has specific rules about computer access, and if the "employee has knowledge of the employer’s limitations on that authorization, the employee ‘exceeds authorized access’ when the employee violates those limitations" said employee is deep in the fecal matter.
Apparently the same circuit court ruled the opposite last year on the same law when the employer did not have specific data access rules in place. "Exceeding authorized access" is the issue at hand.
The dissenting judge wrote that "under the majority’s ruling, “any person who obtains information from any computer connected to the internet, in violation of her employer’s computer-use restrictions, is guilty of a federal crime.”"
There are some nasty ramifications to this, and basically if an employer asked me to do some work on my home system in my own time, I would definitely get it in writing and file that sucker away some place safe in case the law comes a-knockin'.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/no-hacking-required/
