According to the article: "Mitsubishi offered O'Neil numerous login credentials in order for O'Neil to collect the contents of the database surreptitiously using a data-scraping program that automatically retrieves data -- a process that would take a Web user many hundreds of hours to retrieve using manual point-and-click methods."
If this is accurate, it's data scraping non-public data, which is a bit different. They provided account details to access protected data and scrape it, which I have no doubt runs into other legal and contractual issues. The real lesson from this is to spell out in detail who owns the data in your contract, to hopefully reduce these sorts of conflicts in the future. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Victor Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > In any case, read the article if you data scrape. > > http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701074&cid=nl_DR_DAILY_2010-05-10_h > > please be careful of any posts or comments you make to this email so that > you don't incriminate yourself. -- Joseph Scott [email protected] http://josephscott.org/ _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
