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How do you know you can walk into a shop and start picking things up, but not the open door to someone's house? The law has dealt with these kinds of things fo
by CJefferson 8y ago
How do you know you can walk into a shop and start picking things up, but not the open door to someone's house?
The law has dealt with these kinds of things for hundreds of years. Intent matters.
- _jal 8y agoYes, the law is great at reaching decisions. Not always good ones, but one is sure to be reached. If that is all that matters to you, you're thinking like a legal academic, not a security researcher. The point I am making is about uncertainty before you get to a formal legal setting. Or is everything else you do in business do-first, hope you don't get busted later? Legal uncertainty about edge cases is real, and a thing that dissuades people from doing thing things. Saying the law will figure it out is how we got here with the CFAA, not a solution to it.