IF YOU guess the address of a company’s Web page when there are no links to it anywhere on their website, are you engaging in computer hacking? A Swedish company thinks so.
Software developer Intentia International of Stockholm last week filed a criminal complaint against news agency Reuters, after one of its reporters guessed a URL and accessed Intentia’s financial results before their scheduled release. Intentia alleges that the Reuters report on its financial performance resulted from hacking.
Reuters says the figures were public as soon as Intentia posted it to its Web server, whether there was a link or…
