The speakers encouraged audience members to lobby for changes in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Remotely attempting to cause damage to computers without authorisation breaks the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Craigslist threw in a kitchen sink of legal claims, including violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said her group is working to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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The hacking crimes Keys is charged with come from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in the 1980s.
Following Swartz's death, US House Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act called Aaron's Law.
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The hacking crimes Keys is charged are laid out in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in the 1980s.
Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act generally prohibits unauthorized access to computers.
The company requested a temporary restraining order for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and facilitating copyright infringement, such as downloading pirated games.
Forced tracking and attacking (levels 2-4) violate U.S. federal law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes unauthorized access to systems and data.
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The legality of using Firesheep is less wooly when it comes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which criminalizes accessing computer systems without authorization.
Such fabrication, the court stated, can give rise to charges under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as was the case in United States v.
After downloading millions of academic papers from the online service JSTOR, Swartz was prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and faced up to 35 years in prison.
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Orin Kerr of the George Washington University Law School wrote an excellent OpEd for the WSJ on the obscure law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in 1986.
That privacy violation, the lawsuit alleges, breaches the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, among other statutes.
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