Another good reference is: Cybercrime: A Sketch of 18 U.S.C. 1030 and Related Federal Criminal Laws[1] It was written by the Congressional Research Service an

Another good reference is: Cybercrime: A Sketch of 18 U.S.C. 1030 and Related Federal Criminal Laws[1] It was written by the Congressional Research Service and is well suited for non-lawyers. It is all of 9 pages including cover material and is the tl;dr version of the 97 page: Cybercrime: An Overview of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Statute and Related Federal Criminal Laws[2] [1] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS20830.pdf http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS20830.pdf [2] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-1025.pdf http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-1025.pdf