[LINK] "Good Samaritan" hacker pleads guilty to breaking andentering

[Rick Welykochy]

Roger Clarke wrote:
 
> The disturbing bit is the charge, which is "intentionally access a
> protected computer without authorization through the use of an interstate
  ^^^^^^^^^
> communication, and did thereby obtain information from a protected
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^
> computer; "

Must be a new use of the word "protected". The box in question could
have been unintentionally accessed by a child, and the web edit function
invoked by a misclick.

> Otherwise the crime becomes available to a prosecutor as a 
> weapon of repression.

I fear we will be seeing a lot more of this tactic.


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