Man charged with hacking for checking wife's email to see if she is having an affair.

Crioca · 2010-12-29T02:10:06+00:00

Blargh, I'm torn on this one. As an information security professional, what he did is illegal and SHOULD be illegal. But what he's being charged with goes way beyond the scope of what that law was intended.

However I expect my email to be private and I keep it private. I would no more want my SO reading my email than my paper mail. As a men's rights advocate I look at this and say "That sucks and is unfair, I bet if the genders were reversed people would be applauding this woman." But as a privacy advocate I say "Anyone who reads my private communications without my permissions is guilty of a CRIME. No matter their relationship to me."

Smaskifa · 2010-12-28T20:44:57+00:00

My GF has signed into Hotmail on my phone, and the phone automatically stored her credentials. Next time I opened my phone browser, it had her inbox open, and the account was still signed in. Am I a hacker, too?

callipygian1 · 2010-12-29T05:11:53+00:00

never admit that shit. "it was there on the monitor when i walked past it to the kitchen to get a beer. honest."

johnnyrd · 2010-12-29T09:40:07+00:00

"she was having an affair with her second husband, who had once been arrested for beating her in front of her young son from her first husband."

Thats some fucked up Texas swap right there.

1anomaly · 2010-12-29T15:02:15+00:00

Doesn't he realize that only the government can read people's email at will?

(I don't think he should have read his wife's email, but...five years???)

BeLessPeople · 2010-12-28T17:02:23+00:00

You think you have a MensRight to check your wife's e-mail?! That's fucking creepy, psycho.

truthiness79 · 2010-12-28T23:31:13+00:00

this is awesome. because shes going to lose custody of her child to her first ex-husband for having an affair with her abusive second ex-husband, so shes suing her third ex-husband out of revenge? i mean...how petty can you be?

ignatiusloyola · 2010-12-28T15:23:40+00:00

Here is my biggest concern with this concept...

In a marriage, the couple are supposed to share everything, right? When they divorce, for example, half of everything is supposed to go to each partner (theoretically, let's not digress on the unfairness of what actually occurs). That means that they, as a couple, co-own everything.

So, then, is now her email account half his?

Title	Man charged with hacking for checking wife's email to see if she is having an affair.
Author	ignatiusloyola
Upvotes	50
Comments	40
Date	December 28, 2010 2:35 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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