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The ruling is about whether one has a 4th amendment right to privacy with regard to criminal investigations. You'd still be violating, at a minimum, the CFAA if
by dangerlibrary 10y ago
The ruling is about whether one has a 4th amendment right to privacy with regard to criminal investigations. You'd still be violating, at a minimum, the CFAA if you broke into someone else's private computer. There are exemptions in the CFAA for exactly this kind of investigatory activity.
But the ruling won't hold, because it is dumb and bad.