Hacking, Facebook Fakers, and Felonies…What you don’t know can hurt you August 20, 2015
Posted by Chris Mark in Uncategorized.Tags: access, block, computers, control, cybercrime, facebook, hacking, information security, security, unauthorized, utah
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Consider this situation. You want to see what your ex husband/wife is up to in 2015 and try to access his/her Facebook account only to realize that you have been ‘blocked’! Oh the Humanity! in response you decide to set up a ‘fake’ account and go to his/her public page to download some content. No harm no foul, right? Not so fast brainiac from Smartron 5! Let’s take a closer look at this situation. You could be committing a crime…and a felony no less!
Many states, including Utah, have statutes (laws) against. ‘Hacking’ which is generally acknowledged as ‘unauthorized’ access to computer systems (this is a blog post so some more detailed info is not included). Since I live in Utah, I will use the Utah law Utah Computer Crimes Act (76-6-702) as an example. First…let’s lay some ground work. (more…)
