Man aangehouden voor computervredebreuk na vergissing politie
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De politie heeft donderdagavond rond 19:00 uur aan de Prinses Beatrixstraat in Ridderkerk een 40-jarige man uit Ridderkerk aangehouden voor computervredebreuk. Deze man had door een vergissing van de politie onbedoeld toegang gekregen tot vertrouwelijke politiedocumenten. Toen deze man gevorderd werd hier afstand van te doen, gaf de man hier geen gehoor aan. Hij gaf aan hier pas gehoor aan te geven als hij hier iets voor terug zou krijgen. Daarom is besloten de man aan te houden, zijn woning te doorzoeken en de vertrouwelijke bestanden weer veilig te stellen om mogelijke verspreiding te voorkomen. De politie heeft melding gemaakt van het datalek en doet onderzoek.

On Thursday evening around 7:00 PM, police arrested a 40-year-old man from Ridderkerk on Prinses Beatrixstraat in Ridderkerk for computer hacking. Due to a police error, the man had inadvertently gained access to confidential police documents. When ordered to relinquish these documents, he refused. He stated that he would only comply if he received something in return. Therefore, the decision was made to arrest the man, search his home, and secure the confidential files to prevent possible dissemination.

  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.comEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    The wrong he did was the extortion. If you feel like people being extorted should not be able to charge people attempting to extort them because they created the conditions for extortion then I think we fundamentally disagree on how law and order should function. Doing something bad/illegal is wrong. Extorting someone for doing something bad/illegal is also wrong. I don’t think you should be able to blame someone for making it easy to extort them as a defense for extortion.

    • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      I think the point webp@mander.xyz is trying to make is that, if I were to send you digital information and then demanded from you to delete it, one would have potentially a harder time convincing people, that it’s not within your rights to demand remuneration.
      Especially with how US-centric and -representative the international media landscape has become.
      Even though in most(?) European countries I imagine (didn’t actually check) I could sue you for damages, maybe reduced due to my causing the issue, should you publish the information after I asked you delete it.

      But with the power imbalance at play here the police can just roll in and arrest the guy. Allowing them to be terminally stupid in the best case, or malevolent in the worst. They could just as well claim they sent someone secret information, they refused to comply with the request for deletion, so they were arrested.
      Depending on how little oversight there actually is, that either is the end of the story or, when asked for proof of this series of events, the “proof” was “accidentally deleted” during the investigation, how clumsy.

    • webp@mander.xyzEnglish
      06·
      1 day ago

      If you feel like people being extorted should not be able to charge people attempting to extort them because they created the conditions for extortion then I think we fundamentally disagree on how law and order should function.

      We probably do disagree, because there are conditions that create every crime and punishing the actors does not prevent the crime in the first place. You can see how there is still much crime in places that have supposed “law and order.” Go ahead and downvote.