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  1. Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job - Enlarge (credit: natasaadzic/Getty)

    Caitlin Vogus is the de... - arstechnica.com/?p=2009060 #computerfraudandabuseact #freedomofthepress #foxnews #policy #aclu

  2. CW: Long thread/32

    To put an ad-blocker in an app, you have to reverse-engineer it. To do that, you'll have to decrypt and decompile it. That step is a felony under #Section1201 of the #DMCA, carrying a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine. Beyond that, ad-blocking an app would give rise to liability under the #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct (a law inspired by the movie *Wargames*!), under "tortious interference" claims, under trademark, copyright and patent.

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  3. “For the past many months & even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time & energy toward looking for, #hacking into, #tampering with, #manipulating, copying, #disseminating, & generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or #stolen,” the #lawsuit charges. It alleges that the duo’s actions violated the federal #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct.

    #Giuliani #Costello #HunterBiden

  4. OpenAI launches web crawler 'GPTBot' amid plans for next model: GPT-5 - ChatGPT users have the option to scrap the web crawler by adding ... - cointelegraph.com/news/open-ai #u.s.patentandtrademarkoffice #computerfraudandabuseact #privateinformation #worldwideweb #webcrawler #aimodel #paywall #openai #gptbot #policy #gpt-4 #gpt-5

  5. LinkedIn can’t use anti-hacking law to block web scraping, judges rule - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

    In a case involving LinkedIn, a... - arstechnica.com/?p=1849164 #computerfraudandabuseact #linkedin #policy

  6. Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law - Enlarge / In April 2013, more than 120 people attended a rally in Boston to remem... - arstechnica.com/?p=1769621 #computerfraudandabuseact #supremecourt #policy #cfaa