If you havent seen the compilation video here it is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVufYXaGg8
He’s being sued because he used publicly available credentials to login to a fox streaming site and recorded the videos of Ye West saying antisemitic things on the Tucker Carlson interview that was cut from the broadcasted version. https://timburkelegalfund.org/ Has more information
If you go to Starbucks and there’s WI-FI credentials on the wall, are you not supposed to use it without permission? This is what he did, just different publicly available credentials. Yes, the radio guys posted them by accident, but it’s their job to inform about the fuck-up, so fox can remedy it. Nothing about this is the journalist’s fault. He is just doing his job. Finding material the owner-class don’t want published, then publishing it.
“unauthorized access” is such a bullshit term, if the system hands the information over when someone asks for it, not using any exploits or anything, that’s not unauthorized, that’s the people running the system not liking what they’ve authorized after the fact.
If I asked Rupert Murdoch for a transcript of the interview, and he gives it to me, that’s not unauthorized, he just gave it to me.
Yes, you need permission to use someone else’s WiFi. Or their computer.
If the Starbucks store manager has a post it note on their computer monitor with their login credentials, that doesn’t mean you can log into their computer.