Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN
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Leaking crash footage to CNN isn't clearly "the right thing". Except for CNN I guess, who probably got a lot of views and clicks from the footage.
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Leaking crash footage to CNN isn't clearly "the right thing". Except for CNN I guess, who probably got a lot of views and clicks from the footage.
A lot of views from general population rather than being buried.
Are you suggesting such incidents should not be reported on or captured?
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Leaking crash footage to CNN isn't clearly "the right thing". Except for CNN I guess, who probably got a lot of views and clicks from the footage.
A lot of views from general population rather than being buried. Are you suggesting such incidents should not be reported on or captured?
bro, no one is suggesting we should keep plane crashes secret, but yeah I do find it a little distasteful to turn on the TV and see the moment hundreds of people were killed.
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Why is leaking the video the right thing? There were multiple videos of the incident including footage from a EarthCam live camera. And the NTSB released multiple videos as part of their investigation. The video wasn't leaked in order to stop a coverup.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leaking crash footage to CNN isn't clearly "the right thing". Except for CNN I guess, who probably got a lot of views and clicks from the footage.
A lot of views from general population rather than being buried. Are you suggesting such incidents should not be reported on or captured?
The person got paid to grant exclusive rights to the videos to CNN, this wasn't just posting to social media to spread the word.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Leaking crash footage to CNN isn't clearly "the right thing". Except for CNN I guess, who probably got a lot of views and clicks from the footage.
A lot of views from general population rather than being buried. Are you suggesting such incidents should not be reported on or captured?
The NTSB provided the footage. Nothing further was required.
Re: Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN
#9Note that CNN isn’t in trouble for reporting this, the person who exfiltrated the footage is.
Stealing security camera footage and giving (or possibly selling) it is a problem. This article tries to make a case that the law applied wasn’t correct on somewhat pedantic terms, but I don’t know enough about the law to know if they have a point or not.
I do know, however, that if you take private data from your employer and leak it (or sell it) you’re not going to be on the right side of the law. I have a hard time buying this article’s point that it was just “violating company policy”
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#10I'd say leaking an employer's internal data when not whistleblowing is definitely cause for termination, in the "no future employer should trust you" way, but yeah, calling this a CFAA case is a stretch.