On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 21:48 -0400, David Krider wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:47 -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
Surely even at DeVry they teach that if you refuse to hand over passwords for property that is not legally yours, that you are committing a crime. I mean, think about it, it's effectively theft, in the same sense that if you refuse to hand over the keys for a car that you don't own, you're committing theft of an automobile.
I've seen a dismissed employee withhold a password. The owner of the company threatened legal action, considering it, like you, theft. My father-in-law is an attorney, so I asked him about the situation. He said that it wouldn't be called "theft," rather "illegal control."
Same difference, he still committed a crime and anyone who is defending him seems to not understand this. Whatever we want to call that crime, it's still a crime, and he got the appropriate penalty. William