>>Identity theft on line is punishable by law and by prison time... I just looked at the laws across the U.S. they are all felonies.
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Not if no damage is caused and the "unlawfully accessed" data is a community forum that can be searched without logging in.
It shouldn't have happened but it's been blown completely out of proportion and IMHO the time is well overdue to let it go.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
