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Is password-lending a cybercrime?
Mark Rasch, 2004-03-01

A judge's wrongheaded interpretation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act illustrates the problems of allowing civil enforcement of a criminal law.

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Yes--see 18USC1030. Here, password-lending is a cybercrime. 2004-03-11
M.Carr, JD, CISSP
The Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act covers a lot more than just federal govt computers. And it is both a criminal statute and a law that creates a civil remedy. The federal statute can be found at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html

Insofar as applicability, it is difficult to ...

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