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 University’s Center for Internet and Society, told me. “It was written in a completely different era with respect to how we use computers. It was not a well-thought-out law, and that’s come back to haunt us.”"

• Date Published:04/12/2019
• Original Publication:The Washington Post