Man charged for selling forged license keys for network switches
Man charged for selling forged license keys for network switches
The U.S. government has indicted a co-owner of a Minnesota IT company for his participation in an international conspiracy to sell forged license keys for networking devices. [...]
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"Paley used that information to procure counterfeit license keys that enabled additional ports or functionality on the switches to be accessible to their clients."
This should not be considered a crime.
Yes. More like it is a felony (CFAA) that the company installed software restricting the ports against the hardware owner's will.