Washington Post: This 80s-era criminal hacking law scares cybersecurity researchers
Washington Post: “Since it was instituted in the 1980s, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has been the government’s primary tool for going after malicious hackers. But it’s also has drawn the ire of cybersecurity researchers who fear the law is too broad — and potentially criminalizes some of the things they do to help make systems safer.
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‘We’ve seen folks in the past prosecuted for very pedestrian types of violations and that colors the perception of how out of touch many infosec people see regulation and legislation in this space,’ said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology.”