Using your spouse's Netflix password is a felony

[Nocaster]

Wow. ........
Password Sharing Is Now a Crime - Schneier on Security (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/07/password_sharin_1.html)

"In a truly terrible ruling, the US 9th Circuit Court ruled that using someone else's password with their permission but without the permission of the site owner is a federal crime."

"For you and me, this case means that unless Netflix specifically authorizes you to share your password with your friend, you're breaking federal law."

I hope people that engage in vile felonious password sharing don't have access to firearms or voting booths. /sarcasm

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[2506]

I hope people that are easily duped stay away from the voting booth as well.

Sharing Netflix Passwords Hasn't Become a Felony (http://www.snopes.com/2016/07/12/sharing-netflix-passwords-hasnt-become-a-felony/)

 

[Nocaster]

Fine, so it doesn't apply to Netflix. It's still a bad law, and I was trying to illustrate that loss of firearms and voting rights for password snaring is stupid. No need to be a bubblegum about it.

 

[308]

Fine, so it doesn't apply to Netflix. It's still a bad law, and I was trying to illustrate that loss of firearms and voting rights for password snaring is stupid. No need to be a bubblegum about it.

I didn't see it as an offense towards you. More like an example of how passing along bogus information can make us look like one of those ThisIsaGhostGunThatShoots30roundsInaHalfSecondwithA30caliberMagazineClip retards.

 

[Nocaster]

I didn't see it as an offense towards you. More like an example of how passing along bogus information can make us look like one of those ThisIsaGhostGunThatShoots30roundsInaHalfSecondwithA30caliberMagazineClip retards.

Either way, no need for me to be that thin skinned, either. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[Member 5605]

But leaking confidential state department documents isn't....

 

[2506]

Either way, no need for me to be that thin skinned, either. Thanks for pointing that out.

Sorry if you took what I said the wrong way--308 hit it on the head.

 

[Nocaster]

No worries, man, I was posting past my bedtime and on a short fuse due to some work issues. My apologies.

But leaking confidential state department documents isn't....

It's all about the criminal intent, dontchaknow.

 

[RicInOR]

Well, Snopes is owned so I am not taking their word for anything.



9th Circuit: It's a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/12/9th-circuit-its-a-federal-crime-to-visit-a-website-after-being-told-not-to-visit-it/)

 

[Mark W.]

But Hillary!