Our Hacking Laws Are A Mess
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English - October 27, 2015 18:43 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTechnology entrepreneurship business interview health leadership productivity comedy news politics music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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If you're a Techdirt regular, you probably know that there are some serious problems with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Drafted in 1986 with extremely broad language, the CFAA has grown into an easily abused law that lets prosecutors go after people for minor activities that don't meet any reasonable definition of hacking or computer fraud. This week, we discuss the utter mess that our hacking laws have become, and look into ways they might be fixed.