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""The CFAA makes it a crime to "access a computer without authorization or exceed authorized access." Courts have been struggling to figure out what this means
by FedericoCapell0 9y ago
""The CFAA makes it a crime to "access a computer without authorization or exceed authorized access." Courts have been struggling to figure out what this means ever since Congress passed it more than 30 years ago.""
The law by itself is ok, but I suspect lawmakers were referring to accessing a single personal workstation, probably not taking into account a cluster of servers containing public accessible data.
- mywittyname 9y ago"Authorization" should be clarified to mean requiring credentials that formally grant access. In my eyes, public-facing content on a website is explicitly available to anyone. It clearly does not require authorization.