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Agreed. I hope any jury would nullify such a law. AKA "perverse verdict" in the UK?

• dmix 7y ago
  I’d never trust a jury for any highly technical matter such as this. Prosecutors have shown they can be highly effectively at spinning even the most basic security research into sounding like serious criminal behaviour (like punishing someone with serious jail time for incrementing the id number in a URL and finding other users personal profiles completely unprotected). You only gamble on juries for stuff like murder trials and similar basic crimes.
• gowld 7y ago
  Juries can't nullifiy laws. They can nullify verdicts.
  • mLuby 7y ago
    Good point. >A jury verdict that is contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it. However, if a pattern of acquittals develops in response to repeated attempts to prosecute a particular offence, this can have the de facto effect of invalidating the law. -Wikipedia