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Posted by Unruh on November 21, 2005, 8:13 pm
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>I had a roommate that installed keylogger on his computer while living
>with me. We went our seperate ways, on good terms. A year later, I
>had moved to another state. I never changed my password from when he
>lived with me. So, one day I was with my girlfriend in my apartment,
>and she got an email from... me. It was a fraudulent email telling her
>numerous things that were not true.
>I got a hold of one of my friends, who was also friends with my old
>roommate. He admitted that my old roommate did, indeed, hack my email
>account and send out these emails.
>I later found that he not only hacked my email, he then used the
>"forgot password" function on different sites and had the password
>emailed to my email address that he currently had access to.
>My question is: I reported him to the police back when it happened, but
>I don't think that they really did anything. However, I definitely
>want reprecussions to happen to this kid. He severely hurt my
>relationship. He emailed another person, from my account, and tried to
>break up their marriage by claiming the spouse had cheated on them.
>This obviously wasn't meant to be a "funny joke" as there was malicious
>behavior involved. Please inform what crimes may have been broken on
>this. Originally I thought computer hacking... but I'm thinking now it
>was something like computer fraud.
>Even if the kid only gets 5 hours of community service, at least he
>will have been punished for his crime.
fraud (although that may well involve money), libel(although generally that
is a civil crime-- ie you have to sue him, or your friend whose marriage
was damaged has to sue him), mischief, malicious misrepresentation.
I do not think that "computer" comes into it at all. Ie, he could have sent
a letter or made a phone call purporting to come from you.
You just made it easy for him by allowing him to have root on your machine
and not changing your password regularly. That does not excuse him of
course.
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