interesting
They haven’t done the defrauding part yet. So probably not wire fraud, as weird as that sounds. But very likey Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030 . United States v. Nosal (Nosal II) , is the existing precedence.
Although again some kind of fraud or damage would likely need to be paired with that to get a jury conviction. “I broke into my friend’s crazy mother’s accounts to make sure she wasn’t going to try and harm or kill her daughter, because the woman thinks her daughter is a body snatching demon,” is a fairly strong emotional defense. Especially since they’d know exactly which records to subpoena (legally) with all the crazy, and possibly admission of crimes done by this group.
Ah, yes, you are correct. Just double checked, accessing accounts without the permission of the owner and using them to exfiltrate information is simply “computer fraud”. Wire fraud, as my research shows, requires the intent to extract money.
OSINT would be open-source intelligence. PID (personal identication data) would normally be restricted in its distribution. So if you had someone obtain the information by misusing an existing permission, such as court or law enforcement employees, there might be criminal malfeasance charges against the individual misusing his authority, but I don’t know if it would be considered computer crime. Since the mother is interfering with the wedding, it could also be tortious interference.
Now if a person joins a forum, chat room, or equivalent by creating a false persona, that might be OSINT. If the use the ID of an existing member, that might be computer crime. Assuming the C-ID is “chimera identification”, any person releasing information outside permitted channels would be in a host of trouble.
Kate also has friends among the magi, who are not known for necessarily following legal requirements in achieving their desires.
Gathering and/or collating any publicly accessible data is OSINT. Yes, I do know what the acronym means.
As for the wirefraud, apparently I didn’t know US law as well as I thought. The correct term for gaining access to accounts and exfiltrating information from them is “computer fraud”, or so my deeper research has now discovered. Still, she’s straying to the wrong side of the law for sure.
Oh, we’ve strayed past OSINT into wirefraud? Well, so long as they cover their tracks.
Thanks for the hard work, Sage!