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Post: How guessing someone's password counts as hacking.

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How guessing someone's password counts as hacking. 

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Because it's unauthorised access. If you have to guess the password, that means you can't have been authorised to access whatever facility is protected by that password - if you had been, you'd know the password. QED.

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