We don’t even need to go that far. If I do harm to someone else by accident I am still liable under the law. See car crashes, negligent homicide, any time when a company is liable because they didn’t take proper precautions to protect employees or the public.
If some script kiddie ran a script on a company server that someone they know gave them for hacking the vending machine or getting iTunes on their work computer and it turned out to be a virus, they would still be on the hook.
There’s already a lot of case law about this, it just hasn’t been adapted to this particular scenario and argued in court yet.
This is 'rules for thee and not for me", and I am sick to death of the whole thing.
We don’t even need to go that far. If I do harm to someone else by accident I am still liable under the law. See car crashes, negligent homicide, any time when a company is liable because they didn’t take proper precautions to protect employees or the public.
If some script kiddie ran a script on a company server that someone they know gave them for hacking the vending machine or getting iTunes on their work computer and it turned out to be a virus, they would still be on the hook.
There’s already a lot of case law about this, it just hasn’t been adapted to this particular scenario and argued in court yet.
This is 'rules for thee and not for me", and I am sick to death of the whole thing.
Do you need to demonstrate harm? I think just the act of hacking has been established as a crime.