>despite that being a logical next step to this ruling No. No it isn't. This ruling does not state that hacking is legal, it says that it isn't a 4th Amendment

>despite that being a logical next step to this ruling No. No it isn't. This ruling does not state that hacking is legal, it says that it isn't a 4th Amendment violation. As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016508 >Someone not having a reasonable expectation of privacy in a thing does not mean it is legal to hack their computer. And there's an explicit legal exemption of hacking for law enforcement in the CFAA.