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Supreme Court to Review CFAA for First Time
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society said a change in the interpretatio…
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The Week in Tech: WhatsApp’s Spyware Fight Is at Least Good P.R.
"But not all court cases are just about getting a jury verdict. “I think it’s a sincere attempt to use the C.F.A.A. in a novel way,” said Riana Pfefferkorn…
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WhatsApp's Case Against NSO Group Hinges on a Tricky Legal Argument
"But WhatsApp's lawsuit doesn't make any mention of prior notice to NSO to stop abusing its services or hacking its users. "I don’t see anythi…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Security experts irked U.S. prosecutors used anti-hacking law to nab Julian Assange
"“CFAA is a ridiculously broad statute or, at least it has been interpreted that way by many courts,” Jeffrey Vagle, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Unive…
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Breaking Down the Hacking Case Against Julian Assange
"Is one failed attempt to crack a password really enough to embroil Assange in a felony hacking case? "For the CFAA, unfortunately yes," says Jef…
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A legal question for the AI age: Is tricking a robot the same thing as hacking it?
"Their paper considers a broad view of the legal definition of hacking under the CFAA, applying it even to previous work done by one of the co-authors, Yos…
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Did Wikileaks Commit A Crime When It 'Guessed' PutinTrump.org's Password?
"Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said that unless the owner or operator of a system specifically auth…
Hackback in black
Imagine that a random car is periodically driving across your front yard, leaving tire treads and gouges on your otherwise pristine lawn. How would you handle i…
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U.S. v. Auernheimer
Arguing that a defendant’s conviction for website hacking should be overturned because legitimate, highly valuable security and privacy research commonly employ…
Bloomberg Law: Password Sharing Conviction Upheld
Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University Law School, and David Levine, a professor at the Elon University School of Law, discuss a federal a…
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Scalia's privacy and cyber legacy -- and what's next?
"Scalia's “sentiment of government surveillance did not necessarily extend to private companies,” Omer Tene, vice president of research and education,…
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The federal crime nobody talks about in 'Making a Murderer'
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said accessing Halbach's wireless account is possibly a…