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by otterley 1567 days ago
I think this is highly unlikely. That would be grounds for a civil suit, but probably not a criminal prosecution.
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The criminal part would be using another’s credentials (the s3 keys) as your own.
The situation being discussed is an open bucket, with no access credentials required.
Obviously no traditional access credentials are required because otherwise it wouldn’t be usable to link to (by the owner). But as with the codes you use to embed Google Maps in a website, there could be part of the URL that can be considered to function as something like an access credential.

Anyway I presume if the FBI ‘criminally charged’ the poster the charge included the criminal law they are accusing him of breaking.