piatkow - 8:33 am on Sep 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

Many organisations do not wish to reveal weaknesses in their systems. Even back in the 70s when I worked as a clerk in a bank it was most unusual to prosecute staff fraud for the same reason.

Also limited law enforcement resources are most likely going to be concentrated on dealing with things like kiddie p*rn and other complainants will probably get pushed towards civil action even for criminal matters.

How about your country?

On most IT matters European law is stricter than American.

was a federal crime in most nations.

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