Decius wrote:
] ] Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary
] ] Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a
] ] year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically
] ] passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The
] ] Globe.
] ]
] ] From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003,
] ] members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer
] ] glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic
] ] communications without a password. Trolling through
] ] hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points
] ] and accounts of private meetings discussing which
] ] judicial nominees Democrats would fight -- and with what
] ] tactics.

If you have filesystem permissions to access files, but you are aware that you are not supposed to be accessing them... that it is a "glitch," are you committing a crime by viewing, copying, and distributing those files?

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