Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it

From: thomas@clark.net (Mark Thomas)

Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:17:59 +0000

In article <94jmjp$fgh$1@eressea.upb.de>, "Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de> wrote:

>> > We may research legal alternatives, since illegally
>> > acquiring password-secured data is clearly a criminal offense.
>>
>> Hmm, there are those who would argue that the cheat used a
>> legitimate gaming ploy. One side foolishly gave a vital
>> secret away. Is it criminal for a player on the opposing
>> side to use this lapse against them?
>
>Yes it is. We have a lawyer amongst the players, I might check with him -
>one good thing about having a large base of enthusiastic players is that no
>matter what profession you need advice from, you'll always have one around.
>
>They are accessing private data by means of a personal password. It doesn't
>matter that this is a game. Otherwise we might as well go and extend the
>term "money transfer" to acquiring my PIN and account number to get the
>money from my account directly :-)

From what you've said previously, they are submitting orders via a password
that was given away. That means it is no longer private data. Maybe I missed
something in your previous messages though.

Mark
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References

Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:19:02 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:15:27 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:33:40 +0000
Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:38:04 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
skrenta@textport.net (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:38:38 +0000

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Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:19:02 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:15:27 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:33:40 +0000
Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:38:04 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
skrenta@textport.net (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:38:38 +0000