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grueztoday at 3:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

1. OP specifically mentioned "IP violating antics", not hacking

2. All the hacking legislation (and criminal law in general) require proving intent, which so far as we can tell didn't exist in those cases. At best you can try some "reckless" or "negligent" angle, but that would a novel legal argument and would be risky to prosecute


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someothherguyytoday at 4:13 AM

> All the hacking legislation (and criminal law in general) require proving intent

No, they don't, see laws that make negligent behavior illegal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

crotetoday at 4:20 AM

But officer, I didn't mean for my autonomous bank vault busting robot to autonomously bust any bank vaults!