Password Break in

[CRmjr]

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E-mail Address: heart2globe@yahoo.com
Subject: Other

Query:
This is a little off the "tech" subject but I can't seem to get an answer anywhere. I recently had a split up with a spouse. She played around with passwords on my yahoo account and managed to hit on mine. She read all of my coorespondance with friends and associates and my question is, isn't it illegal to read someone's email if one is using the password to keep others from reading it? Aside from the "yeah, right, this guy is hiding an affair" thoughts you may be having right now - which I was NOT, by the way, can you spare some thoughts on the matter? If not, can you refer me to someone who has some knowledge of this topic? My computer was an imac and the password violation was in my home.

Thanks for any consideration you can give me.

[renegade600]

laws are different in different areas and it depends who actually owns the computer. You need to contact a lawyer.

[MishY]

I am not a lawyer - and it seems as though this is the type of person you really need to be talking to.

If the password violation was in your home, on your PC, and was a web account which you didn't share with your wife, then yes that is a violation of your privacy and thus could be prosecutable in a court of law. How successful you would be, I wouldn't know.

[zipulrich]

As you're living here in the USA, there currently is no federal law against reading e-mail. Postal mail, yes. Electronic mail, nope.
Best you can hope for is try to find if Oregon has any 'electronic tampering' or 'anti-hacking' ordinances on the books. If so, call a lawyer.

[oink]

If this is a divorce you are refering to, then I would think your Ex having read some email is, or should be, the least of your worries. No law enforcement agency would be the least bit interested in investigating the incident, even if it is technically illigal in your jurisdiction. Divorces normally get pleanty petty without having to come up with that type of complaint. Shouldn't you be worrying about who gets the kids, the house, or the car or at least the dog? In a relationship gone sour, the best thing you can get from your Ex is, away.

[uripyores]

Format your hd and deny everything. ;) :dizzy:

[nyaxea]

I think the easiest way is to create a different account,yahoo or whatever and use a more difficult password,then send an e mail to all yr contacts notifying them of yr new e mail address..stating that all mails sent to yr previous address wont reach you
I think is the cheapest way....layers etc cost a fortune these days

[uripyores]

I saw somewhere a free programme that forwards all your emails to your new acount/address. Someone else here may possibly know what I'm on about and redirect you, if'n your interested. :wave:

[uripyores]

Shouldn't you be worrying about who gets the kids, the house, or the car or at least the dog? Most importantly the dog.;)

[Nick Grana]

"Aside from the "yeah, right, this guy is hiding an affair" thoughts you may be having right now - which I was NOT....."
Would never have entered my mind, but now.......
This quote should be listed in Open Discussion Forum:
Famous Last Words
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72851 ;)