Homoaffectional
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I'm going to make a bit of a request. One that I can't enforce, but just the same... if you are think this is all for the best, or support what was done, please make your own thread about that. If, hypothetically, there's someone like you out there, you weren't so happy about it that you have already posted a thread about this, so that's a bit telling, so please, honor the request.
So, without further ado...
Torrent Spy insider hack
Reports are surfacing of how a system administrator at torrent spy set up an e-mail relay to send internal e-mails to a Google account, which the MPAA purchased access to in an effort to find out what was happening at the popular torrent meta search engine. This is a classic example of a system administrator gone bad.
There is a lot of previous news on this that you can search for here.
TechDirt though is reporting this morning that more details of the issue has surfaced this morning about the insider job.
As far as we know, information that was gotten as part of a hacking job is admissible in American courts. This is going to create problems, even though the use of the information is not good, there have been instances where information obtained illegally results in legal action against the person who took it, and copyright issues if someone uses it, it is still an action that can lead to the information being used.
This is a big one in divorce cases where information gathered by spyware has been admissible in court for a while now. Discovery of computer systems, beyond those that the person has direct access to, such as e-mail systems, databases and other information gathered has also been used in court.
While no one wants to deal with a company that uses information that was gotten via hacking, the reality of the issue is that this happens, and the data is admissible in court to the best of our knowledge.
The MPAA has to face some serious ethical issues on this one, and anyone who deals with the MPAA on a regular basis has to wonder what is really happening in the backroom of the group, and just how much they might care about taking any form of ethical or moral high ground in the future.
Link.
So, without further ado...
Torrent Spy insider hack
Reports are surfacing of how a system administrator at torrent spy set up an e-mail relay to send internal e-mails to a Google account, which the MPAA purchased access to in an effort to find out what was happening at the popular torrent meta search engine. This is a classic example of a system administrator gone bad.
There is a lot of previous news on this that you can search for here.
TechDirt though is reporting this morning that more details of the issue has surfaced this morning about the insider job.
What appears to have happened, is that a former TorrentSpy employee who had access to the company’s email system set it up so all executives’ emails also forwarded to a gmail account he owned. He then sold access to that gmail account to people at the MPAA. Clearly, the MPAA knew that the TorrentSpy execs thought these emails were private, and yet they still eagerly paid up for access to them, which is really sleazy. TorrentSpy is appealing the case, but they’d probably have a much stronger case against the former employee who set up the email forwarding system in the first place. Source: Techdirt
The problem is a problem for anyone that is worried about any insider doing something that is wrong for profit. Moreover, while TechDirt is right, they have a case against the system admin who forwarded all the info, there is something else at stake here.
As far as we know, information that was gotten as part of a hacking job is admissible in American courts. This is going to create problems, even though the use of the information is not good, there have been instances where information obtained illegally results in legal action against the person who took it, and copyright issues if someone uses it, it is still an action that can lead to the information being used.
This is a big one in divorce cases where information gathered by spyware has been admissible in court for a while now. Discovery of computer systems, beyond those that the person has direct access to, such as e-mail systems, databases and other information gathered has also been used in court.
While no one wants to deal with a company that uses information that was gotten via hacking, the reality of the issue is that this happens, and the data is admissible in court to the best of our knowledge.
The MPAA has to face some serious ethical issues on this one, and anyone who deals with the MPAA on a regular basis has to wonder what is really happening in the backroom of the group, and just how much they might care about taking any form of ethical or moral high ground in the future.
Link.
