> I've got the feeling that the definition of "hacked" can get somewhat stretched.
Kind of like how someone "hacked" into John Podesta's (during the 2016 elections), but the reality was that he wrote his password on a Post-It note and stuck it on his monitor, or something to that effect.
>but the reality was that he wrote his password on a Post-It note and stuck it on his monitor
that doesn't change the hacking charge (which is an informal term for various Computer Fraud and Abuse act statutes). The key criteria is unauthorized access to a computer system, it doesn't matter if you obtained a password trivially or not.
You don't need to wear a black hoodie and be an elite haxor to qualify for cyber crime charges.
From where are you getting this post-it note nonsense?
Media reported it as a spear phishing attack from a Russian hacker group: <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-hackers-broke-into-john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-hackers-broke-into-john-...
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Kind of like how someone "hacked" into John Podesta's (during the 2016 elections), but the reality was that he wrote his password on a Post-It note and stuck it on his monitor, or something to that effect.
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that doesn't change the hacking charge (which is an informal term for various Computer Fraud and Abuse act statutes). The key criteria is unauthorized access to a computer system, it doesn't matter if you obtained a password trivially or not.
You don't need to wear a black hoodie and be an elite haxor to qualify for cyber crime charges.
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Media reported it as a spear phishing attack from a Russian hacker group: <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-hackers-broke-into-john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-hackers-broke-into-john-...