Do you have to charge an individual? Can you not charge the corporate "person" that is OpenAI?

Sorry if it is a stupid question, as mentioned above I am legally naïve.

yonatan8070 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I, too, have no idea about legal matters.

But there have been many cases where companies (Google, Apple, Meta, etc...) got fined millions or billions of dollars for various violations like antitrust.

I assume that breaching into third-party systems should carry similar fines. Especially for systems that are for all intents and purposes shared infrastructure. Just imagine how many systems you could compromise if you got hold of RubyGems, PyPI, NPM, Debian, etc.

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colechristensen 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The same concept that allows a corporation to sue and be sued allows it to be charged with crimes

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brookst 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you show intent? There is no negligent hacking statute, and HN of all places I would expect people to be sensitive to the implications of creating one.

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VyseofArcadia 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That may be true by the text of the law but there are plenty of individuals who have been sued or charged with crimes for accidental hacking.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/armed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach

https://cisomag.com/drone-maker-dji-cybersecurity-expert-emb...

So what's the deal with these?

	▲	colechristensen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>Eaglesoft CFAA: Intentionally accessing poorly secured data >AT&T CFAA: Intentionally accessing poorly secured data >DJI Civil suit for violating terms of license agreement