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Wasn't the trespassing charge dropped?

• raldi 14y ago
  I don't see how the trespassing charge is relevant here. We're discussing the proposed bill, and what its impact would be on computer crime law.
  • politician 14y ago
    Sorry, I misread you as suggesting that because the proposed bill wouldn't affect the closet access that it was an ineffective bill. In any case, all of the MAC addresses he used were authorized to be on the MIT network until they stopped working without notice. Doesn't the bill now state that changing MAC addresses is not circumvention?
    • mpyne 14y ago
      He saying there's two separate things going on when Aaron went into the closet. 1. Trespassing. This is not germane to this discussion though. 2. Unauthorized circumvention of a technological measure (i.e. deliberately hooking up to a trusted subnet to evade the blocks that had been place on his previous network access) Aaron would very well still have been in violation of even the proposed law, as worded now.
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