Ravenwood - 10/28/02 08:33 PM
Reuters stands 'accused' of hacking and may face criminal charges. Intentia, a Swedish IT group, claims that Reuters 'published' a news release prior to their scheduled release. An internal investigation revealed that someone with a Reuters IP address made an unauthorized entry. Reuters 'denies' the allegation.
Greetings,
funny definition of hacking, as any journalist will tell you, if it's in the public domain, u can go with it...and we're not talking of them using passwords, etc (which would be questionable)...this is just somebody noticing, or guessing where the item is going to appear.
if intentia wins, then what's next?
cheers
Posted by: jesus gil at October 29, 2002 12:05 PMThe article reads that someone at Reuters used a 40-character passcode to access the private information. How they got the passcode is immaterial. If they circumvented the security to access an unauthorized system, they still committed a crime. Even if the password was as easy as 'password'.
Posted by: Ravenwood at October 29, 2002 1:13 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
