The U.S. government has indicted a co-owner of a Minnesota IT company for his participation in an international conspiracy to sell forged license keys for networking devices. […]

  • Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    “Paley used that information to procure counterfeit license keys that enabled additional ports or functionality on the switches to be accessible to their clients.”

    This should not be considered a crime.

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      1 month ago

      Yes. More like it is a felony (CFAA) that the company installed software restricting the ports against the hardware owner’s will.