The argument disputes over the illegality of the 19-year-old act of downloading data from the public institution's portal site

A 19 - year - old man who downloaded information from the Nova Scotia state portal site in Canada is charged with the crime of "maximum penalties violating computer use permission" of 10 years in prison. However, concerning men's treatment, there is an objection that computer engineers should not punish.

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Teen charged in Nova Scotia government breach says he had 'no malicious intent'
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-information-request-privacy-breach-teen-speaks-out-1.4621970

Story of N. S. teen accused in government website breach resonates with programmers | CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/teen-accused-foi-website-resonates-programmers-1.4623757

Teenager Charged For Nova Scotia Freedom of Information Web Portal Breach
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teenager-charged-for-nova-scotia-freedom-of-information-web-portal-breach/

The portal site of Nova Scotia State on April 10, 2018FOIPOP", Access became impossible. The following day, a 19 - year - old man was arrested for stealing data from FOIPOP. According to Nova Scotia State, 7 thousands document data including confidential information such as Nova Scotia residence date of birth, social insurance number, address, use information on government services, etc. are illegal between 3rd and 3rd of 2018 It was said that it was accessed.


After that, CBC Canada interviewed the released man and confirmed the circumstances. For CBC Canada, the man said that he was interested in labor issues recently occurring between the Nova Scotia State Government and the teacher and downloaded the data to investigate this situation. Although he was a man who searched for releases on labor issues with teachers at FOIPOP, he said that he could not find the information he was looking for. The man said, "There were mostly simple questions asked by ordinary people, such as" What is the problem of Syrian refugees? "And the rest of the information remains at the question the student level does I was seeking transparency about labor issues between teachers and the government, "commented CBC Canada.

According to this man, numbers are assigned at the end of the page of the website, and changing the number makes it possible to access another document. For this reason, he said he thought that the information downloaded from the government portal site was public information in the archive, he said that he did not recognize that the act of downloading data was illegal. If the story of a man is true, there is a doubt that the Nova Scotia state government has a fault that it left neglected residents' information under heavy security control.


As for men, there is a desire to archive data, and it is revealed that web page information of 30 million TB sites has been stored in home PC at the moment. Regarding data downloading of FOIPOP, men said they had downloaded 7000 data to computers over several hours by adding only one line of macro code.

Men in the future, but the maximum sentence is believed that there is a high possibility of being accused of committing a felony of 10 years in prison, which raised the voice of criticism that "It's the act of crushing the young talent that was familiar with the computer." It is. Alex Davis, CEO of Coin Nation ATMs, says, "Many of the people involved in the technology should have experienced the same situation." Davis himself said that he had been suspended because he was playing a game in the classroom using VPN he made at home. Teachers of "At the time, I look at the screen of the black-and-white PC would was hastily considered to be hacking the system of the school. People with the ability of this kind of technology is, what's going on When we face powerful people who can not understand, powerful people will start to condemn themselves, "Davis said, defending Nova Scotia's 19-year-old man.

When Mr. Davis suggested making a cloud funding GoFundMe page to set up a Bitcoin wallet for men and create a cost to fight in court, a cloud funding project is actually launched.

Fundraiser by Dragos Ruiu: NS FOI Travesty Legal Defense
https://www.gofundme.com/ns-teen-railroaded-by-government


The voice of wanting to support men has been rising beyond North America, Europe, Australia, etc. There are opinions from officials of the Nova Scotia state government. There are opinions from all over the world that we should protect men centering on engineers.