There is a method for hacking into Yahoo servers and getting password IDs of your friends but it is not easy nor for the computer networking neophyte at http://funnyandfunonly4youth.blogspot.com/2008/09/hack-yahoo-id-step-by-step.html. However, the penalties if you are caught, and the likelihood is that you will be, are deadly serious. At http://www.metafilter.com/29084/Email-hacking-to-jail is
. shown the house arrest of a woman who hacked her husband's ex-wife's email account and got caught and that was the precedent for other cases following. .Both internet service providers and law enforcement are becoming ever more diligent and informed on how to catch this invasion of privacy offenders and the offenders are prosecuted for fraud. Another case got the offender two years in prison for unauthorized use of a company computer. Sentences can range from $5,000.00 per unauthorized access to 20 years in prison for multiple offenses. For more on this see http://www.ehow.com/about_5250531_penalties-hacking-email.html, http://en.allexperts.com/q/Computer-Law-913/2008/8/Hacking-e-mail.htm and the article on raising hacker penalties at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2004/jul/01/business.egovernment.
