Saturday, March 26, 2005

Your decision on the Hacking Case



Your decision on the Hacking Case

If you were to decide on the Landmark Hacking, what will be your judgment? Support your answer.

Given the scarce documents regarding the case, it is not just to create a judgment right away. Since there are not enough documents presented to me, I will not be able to make a judgment right away. But suppose that the documents that I have are the only documents that can be presented, I may be more likely to dismiss the case for lack of supporting evidence. Use of a single telephone number for accessing the Thames account cannot be attributed right away to Leilani Garcia only. If people other than Leilani use the telephone number for accessing the ISP, then Leilani and Cesar Mañalac could not be the only suspects right away. If there are company rules by Thames that usage of the account excludes people like Leilani, then Leilani should not have used the account even if she gained access to it. However, if Mañalac has authority to give access to the Thames account then there is no need to argue about the case. But if Mañalac is not authorized to do so, then the case should proceed.