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jhall1468 | 5 years ago

That's absolutely not the same thing lol. What Amazon did is unethical. What you are describing is illegal.

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I'm honesty curious what crime this would be. If I rent time on someone else's server, and they look at what I'm doing on that server, what illegal thing has happened?

ceejayoz|5 years ago

Seems like a pretty clear violation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act.

eecc|5 years ago

Huh, WTF?! Your FBI used to railroad random kiddies for messing around with poorly programmed dynamic pages and now you’re arguing there’s nothing wrong if a hosting provider trespasses and mines your private property?!

bluntfang|5 years ago

This could fall under Unlawful Access to Computers.

rickety-gherkin|5 years ago

Assuming that the information would be behind at least a password entrance that a user had setup, Amazon breaking through that would be considered illegal unless they had a court order or something. They can peer into metadata that your machine creates but I think looking at private information on a server that they lease out would be illegal. Maybe I'm just hopeful?

unknown|5 years ago

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12xo|5 years ago

Why do you feel its unethical?