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Every Man a Cyber Crook
Mark Rasch, 2002-01-07

Federal anti-hacking law permits cybercrime victims to sue their attackers. So why is that software companies, webmasters and computer makers are the ones being hauled into court?

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CFAA 2002-01-12
Bill Reilly
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has several subsections that can be applied to "hackers" and/or trojan programs. While there is a $5,000 damage threshhold for 1030(a)(5), the main anti-hacking subsection, 1030(a)(2) prevents the unauthorized access to "information" - which, although mostly a misdem...

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