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What the DoJ wants is an easy, flexible statutory framework that will let them shortcut prosecutions in cases like this, where you have a clear bad-actor for wh
by orangecat 15y ago
What the DoJ wants is an easy, flexible statutory framework that will let them shortcut prosecutions in cases like this, where you have a clear bad-actor for whom non-CFAA cases would be complicated and expensive to pursue.
This fails to reassure me.
- tptacek 15y agoFails to reassure you of what? I can't help feeling like you stopped reading at that sentence.
- orangecat 15y agoYou say it's not good vs evil, and that the government's goal isn't to cripple the Internet, but "just" to bypass due process so they can easily convict people they "know" are guilty. If anything I find your scenario even worse; it's approaching the cartoon villains in Atlas Shrugged ("there's no way to rule innocent men").
- tptacek 15y agoI'm going to play this "Not Arguing Law With People Who Are Especially Conversant With Ayn Rand" card I had conveniently saved for just such an occasion.