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How can you legally threaten someone and not face consequences, but if you threaten someone with physical violence you can go to jail?
That's wild!
How can you legally threaten someone and not face consequences, but if you threaten someone with physical violence you can go to jail?
IANAL, but: 1. threatening violence is explicitly a crime 2. at a higher level, threatening violence is a crime because the underlying act (committing violence) is also a crime. threatening to do a legal act is largely legal. it's not illegal to threaten reporting to the authorities, for instance.
Yet another example of someone security "testing" someone else's servers/systems without permission. That's called hacking. Doesn't matter if you have "good faith" or not. It's not your property and you don't get to access it in ways the owners don't desire you to access it without being subject to potential civil and criminal enforcement against you.
It's effectively legalizing fraud for a big chunk of computer security. Sure fraud itself is technically still illegal, but so is exposing it.
They could threaten to report you to the police or such authorities, but they would have to turn over their evidence to them and to you and open all their relevant records to you via discovery.
> Get a lawyer
Yes, if they're seriously threatening legal action they already have one.
How can you legally threaten someone and not face consequences, but if you threaten someone with physical violence you can go to jail?
Your sentiment is silly. In general, with important caveats I will not state here, you can of course voice a threat to do an action that is legal (file a lawsuit), and may not voice a threat to do an action that is illegal (physical assault).
> Stay calm. I can’t tell you how much I wanted to curse out the Fizz team over email. But no. We had to keep it professional — even as they resorted to legal scare tactics. Your goal when you get a legal threat is to stay out of trouble. To resolve the situation. That’s it. The temporary satisfaction of saying “fuck you” isn’t worth giving up the possibility of an amicable resolution. Maybe it's because I'm getting…
And yet, according to the linked article in the Stanford Daily, they received $4.5 million in funding
I don't understand why in both contracts and legal communication (particularly threatening one), there is little to no consequence for the writing party to get things right. I've seen examples of an employee contract, with things like "if any piece of this contract is invalid it doesn't invalidate the rest of the contract". The employer is basically trying to enforce their rules (reasonable), but they have no negativ…
The Stanford Daily article says “At the time, Fizz used Google’s Firestore database product to store data including user information and posts...Fizz did not have the necessary security rules set up, making it possible for anyone to query the database directly...phone numbers and/or email addresses for all users were fully accessible, and that posts and upvotes were directly linkable to this identifiable information.…
A long time ago I was able to get admin access to an electric scooter company by updating my Firebase user to have isAdmin set to true, and then I accidentally deleted the scooter I was renting from Firebase. I am not sure what happened to it after that.