3 ms·
> The CFAA is adopted to prevent deliberate intrusion on someone else’s computer — in particular, computer hacking hacking is commonly used to mean different t
by jackfoxy 7y ago
> The CFAA is adopted to prevent deliberate intrusion on someone else’s computer — in particular, computer hacking
hacking is commonly used to mean different things, and we imply from the context what the author really meant.
Do any lawyers know if computer hacking has a legal definition, or if this decision will lead to a specific legal definition of the term?
- senorjazz 7y agoFrom what I understand it is very loose and can mean "you accessed our systems legitmately but we didn't want you to". I think it was last year that facebook went after fake likes / fake followers companies who were logging via the login page and they liking / following. Companies in China / New Zealand and I think NY? got threatened with the CFAA (unsure if it went further) but it made the tech news at the time. I don't think anyone hear would call writing a bot that logged in with actual details and performed an action (the same a real person could) as hacking, but facebook were saying as it broke the TOS, it was unauthorised, thus hacking laws apply. With their budget, I guess they get to decide what hacking is