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November 30, 2007 | Comments: (0)

A New Spin on Crime

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OK, somebody's going to have to help me here. Apparently I don't even know what a crime is anymore.

I just read an article on a SQL Server Magazine blog about this whole Idera lawsuit business. You can read it here. In there is an inberview with Rick Pleczko where he said: "This is a civil case, not a criminal case, and neither Quest [nor anyone else] has accused us of criminal behavior. Any information to the contrary is completely false."

OK, I get that... you need to defend yourself, but come on. At the top of that very same blog you'll notice that it says there are allegations of Idera violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Ummm... I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty criminal to me. How do they figure that it isn't? If you look up the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on Wikipedia it shows you the prison time associated with violations of this act. Funny, I didn't know they handed out prison sentences for civil matters.

Now, just because nobody's filed criminal charges doesn't mean that what they're being accused of isn't criminal. Look up the act online anywhere and I don't think you'll find any sites that call it a civil affair. It's what the government uses to put hackers in prison.

So nice try, but I'm not biting. Again, just because the charges haven't been filed doesn't mean it's not criminal.

Posted by Sean McCown on November 30, 2007 04:45 PM

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