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Happy 30th Birthday CFAA!
Six things we still don’t know about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after all this time.
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The U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act turns the stylish age of 30 years young this Sunday. Yet, it still has a mystique. After all these years and trials and tinkering, do we really know our definitive piece of American cybercrime law at all?
It’s worth snuggling up with the entire legal text some lazy Sunday morning, but to save you some time, we’ll zero in on the most problematic questions surrounding the CFAA. It all starts with a phrase that shows up in the law again and again: “intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage and loss.”
Read on to learn more about what that might and might not mean.
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