Feds Target Journalist Tim Burke With Law Intended for Hackers
An escalation in the war between people who publish secrets and those who seek to keep them.
An escalation in the war between people who publish secrets and those who seek to keep them.
So holds a federal district court, in a dispute arising from the school policy wars.
Discussions of this week's decisions in Cooley and Van Buren, and the Warren Court case of Katzenbach v. Morgan
Prosecutors like to use the law against people who clearly weren't engaged in hacking. The Court is trying to rein them in.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is itself prone to abuse by prosecutors. This is another example.
I have posted the first 30 pages for interested readers.