alt Hacker NewsNo harm, no foul. Dog owners are on the hook for damages resulting from their dogs, but there must be some damage in the first place. If the dog gets loose and goes in your fenced backyard, disregarding your "no trespassing" sign, you can't punish the dog owner just because. Hacking into a server is closer to the latter. At best rubygems can claim some cleanup costs.
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wmf • today at 1:05 AM
If any remediation was required, that's damage. This looks a lot smaller than the HuggingFace hack but it still required some cleanup.
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none2585 • today at 1:09 AM
That's not really true. Unauthorized access to a system is a crime regardless if there was damage.
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p-e-w • today at 1:23 AM
> No harm, no foul.
What? That’s not how criminal law works, at all.
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Tell that to the script kiddies with a criminal record for "hacking" into their school's computer systems by entering "username: admin" and "password: password".