The whole point of a login system is to authenticate users and enforce access controls. When someone enters valid credentials and the system grants access, that is meaningful evidence that the system recognizes their access rights. You can't simply dismiss that fact and insist that access was unauthorized without explaining what authorization was missing.

Of course, a successful login doesn't grant unlimited privileges. Systems can restrict access to specific files, databases, or functions. But there is a difference between being denied access by the system and being accused of misusing access the system actually granted.

The Supreme Court recognized this distinction in Van Buren v. United States (2021). It ruled that using authorized access for an improper purpose does not, by itself, violate the CFAA's “exceeds authorized access” provision.

The burden is to establish what access was prohibited and how the person crossed that boundary. It's not enough to assert that permission was absent despite the system accepting their credentials.

I'm sorry, I don't buy this story from the police agencies that these guys didn't have permission. If you can log into a system, then you have permission to access that system. That's the whole point of the login process: to determine who can authenticate and authorize usage of a system.

If police agencies wanted to remove permission, then they should have blocked their former users' credentials from accessing the system. This nonsense argument shifts the blame from the agencies mismanaging their users to the individual users who should have been disabled and not allowed to access this information in the first place!

This part of the story seems intended to excuse the sloppy security of police agencies.

I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.

https://informationr.us/

I agree with you but there are different types of travelers. I'm still trying to figure out where I want to retire, so local stays make sense. But not everyone wants to experience a location as a local does, some people just want everything taken care of with 0 effort on their part.

That’s fine if they’re charging less than a hotel. Problem is that they now want to charge more than a hotel. Then they add a cleaning charge. They’ve priced themselves as more expensive than the hotels while handing guests a chore sheet. That’s ridiculous.

Yes, it’s galling to get charged a cleaning fee after washing dishes, drying them, putting them away, washing the bedding and towels, folding the towels, making the bed, taking the trash to the can, taking the can to the curb, sweeping and mopping the floor, vacuuming, etc.

The truly galling thing is that the list of chores existed for the guest in the first place.

Airbnb competes with hotels. A hotel will send a person to your room every day to replace your towels, make your bed, tidy the room, refill your toilet paper, and take out the trash. They do it automatically as part of the cost of renting the room. No extra cleaning fee involved.

Airbnb charges you the same or more than a hotel. And, that comes with a list of chores.

Yes, they may also charge you a cleaning fee on top of the list of chores, which is extra insulting. But, the real problem was the owners expecting the renters to perform chores when they’re supposed to be a guest.

A hotel cleans up after its guests. They happily come to your room every day and make the bed, take out the trash, and tidy up the place. Airbnb competes against hotels. Airbnb units are just as expensive as full service hotels. But, those units have also been requiring guests to wash dishes, wash bedding, remake the bed, sweep floors, take the trash to the can, take the can to the curb, etc. Hotels take care of you while you get a list of chores at Airbnb. It’s clear that hotels offer a better experience today. Airbnb isn’t worth the money and hassle.

That’s all true outside the US as it is inside. There’s nothing uniquely terrible about America or Americans regarding this topic.

I love the idea of Facebook money being used to teach kids how to block advertisements. $25B should be enough to teach every single kid in New Mexico how to do it, going forward forever, as a permanent addition to public school curriculum.

I was going to suggest that maybe we could even use a tiny portion of the money to establish a state DNS server that blackholes the adservers the way pi-hole does. Then kids stuck running proprietary "apps," instead of accessing things through their Manifest-V2-compatible web browser, wouldn't have to install their own DNS server.

But then I realized the aforementioned ad-blocking curriculum ought to have resulted in every kid building their own pi-hole at school anyway, so a state pi-hole is unnecessary.

Only if you upgrade to goldtooth.

The Howard Hughes Corp is still around. Eccentric billionaire, hands into several different sectors, unachievable promises, suspicious government contracts, all the similarities. Howard Hughes Corp does different things now compared to back in the day, but large corporations with physical presence rarely disappear completely.

about the Synergy post?

No, not me!

Audiophilles will be convinced they can hear a difference. They can't, but they will be convinced of it.

I viewed a YouTube about how Mafia control of the Las Vegas casinos ended by the 1980s on account of Department of Justice going after them for "skimming" income from the counting room to avoid taxes.

Apart from cheating the government, meaning you and me out of lawfully imposed tax revenue, along with the services we the people derive from it, and the odd murder here and there to maintain organizational discipline, Mafia Las Vegas was the Golden Age of the $1 buffet lunch. Sure it was a loss leader that you would drain your bank account at the gaming tables, but whether through illegal of legal gambling, the Mafia offered much better odds than the government in the form of state lotteries.

Sure, from the images, The Strip of the late 1970s was cheesy schlock, but private equity has sunk billions into schlock with high production values. And how they (the current owners) fleece you with a 50 dollars for parking, 40 dollars per night resort fee, mandatory 20% (or more) tipping and on an on. If you had no interest in gambling or set a strict budget on how much you were going to blow, Las Vegas used to be a budget destination, but not anymore!

in Back to School, explaining to a Business School professor tha palms you need to grease came to mind.

who gives it one star in their review on account for the catastrophic meltdown at an urban site.