Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Prohibited: tampering with security or accounts, and hacking tools
The user may not tamper with, hack, corrupt, impair, circumvent or disable any security technology, system resource, account or other part of the CNN Services, and may not assist another person in doing so, including by using or distributing tools designed to compromise security such as password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.
Details
- Who
- The user of the CNN Services, or another person they assist
- What it does
- Tampering, hacking, impairing, circumventing or disabling security technology, system resources, accounts or other parts of the Services; using or distributing security-compromise tools
Supporting quotations
tamper with, hack, corrupt, impair, circumvent, or disable any security technology, system resource, account, or other part of the CNN Services (or assist another person in doing so), including by using or distributing tools designed to compromise security (e.g., password guessing programs, cracking tools, or network probing tools);
Qualifications & exceptions
- The ban covers 'account' as one of the protected parts of the Services.
- Assisting another person is itself prohibited, as is distributing compromise tools.