Court Rules Intel E-Mail Did Not Constitute Trespassing

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Steve Bellovin <smb () research att com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:21:35 -0400
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Subject: for IP: Court Rules Intel E-Mail Did Not Constitute Trespassing

http://www.newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/931360p-6492978c.html

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In a ruling testing the bounds of free speech
in cyberspace, the state's highest court ruled Monday that a fired
Intel Corp. employee did not trespass on the company's e-mail
servers when he inundated its employees with electronic complaints.

In the 4-3 decision the California Supreme Court overturned a lower
court injunction that had barred Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi from
e-mailing workers at his former employer.

A lower court had considered Hamidi to be trespassing on the Santa
Clara-based chipmaker's servers, just as if somebody were squatting
on a piece of physical private property.

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        --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
        http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)



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