• Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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      Which was also used repeatedly over the course of 3-4 months to gain access via a non-corporate laptop without the IT doing anything about it.

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        Yeah that seems pretty negligent on their part.

      • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
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        I’ve been in IT for a few years and I’ve changed companies a few times. I just checked my login creds for various systems of 3 previous employers and like half of them still work. Unfortunately it’s a lot more common than any IT department would like to admit

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      It’s only hacking if it’s in a CVE.

      Anything else is just sparkling unauthorized access.

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      Technically he was not authorized to use the computer system due to his termination which the law looks at and calls hacking.

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        No, the law specifically called this “unauthorized access to computer material”. It’s right there in the article.

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          I said the law looks at whether it was authorized access or not, I was not citing any literal lines from the law. Didn’t read the article because I know this already because of the industry I work in and I took a course a number of years ago that literally was about this.