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Glyn MoodyIn A Monday Night Declaration, The White House Admits <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> And <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> Violated The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a> (Although They Might Not Realize It) - <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/18/in-a-monday-night-declaration-the-white-house-admits-musk-and-doge-violated-the-cfaa-although-they-might-not-realize-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/18/in-a-monday-night-declaration-the-white-house-admits-musk-and-doge-violated-the-cfaa-although-they-might-not-realize-it/</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/when-its-not-just-a-coup-but-a-cfaa-violation-too/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/when-its-not-just-a-coup-but-a-cfaa-violation-too/</a>"Elon Musk, and everyone on his DOGE team accessing the federal government’s computer infrastructure, is potentially personally liable for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)."<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Law</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Government</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Treasury</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OPM</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GSA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a>

petersuberUpdate. Cathy Gellis (<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@cathygellis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cathygellis</a>) supports my hunch that the Muskovite action violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a>). <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/when-its-not-just-a-coup-but-a-cfaa-violation-too/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/when-its-not-just-a-coup-but-a-cfaa-violation-too/</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crime</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

petersuber"Exclusive: <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> aides lock Office of Personnel Management workers out of computer systems" <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/</a> I wonder whether this is a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a>, for example under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a>). If it would be a wrong when done by a rogue govt employee, why not worse when done by an outside agitator? Or is all this speculation pointless if the prosecutor would have to be federal and if <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> has the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/pardon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pardon</a> power? <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

AmberSo, I'm watching the Lawful Masses video about the Destiny 2 cheat developer lawsuit (Bungie v Elite Boss Tech), and they called for civil RICO on the cheat developers, but also CFAA on them, for *DOWNLOADING DESTINY 2* to create their cheat program. So, the court case, was ended in default judgment due to the defendants not appearing, after being served. But I really hope this does not get argued in court, it would be really bad if you can be hit with CFAA for lawfully downloading a program, which you then find ways to change the data in it, that's.... that's bad yo.The only good argument in the claim Bungie made, was contract violation, due to repeatedly violating the EULA/TOS/ect, by circumventing bans by creating new accounts.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacking</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/destiny2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destiny2</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/reverseengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reverseengineering</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lawsuit</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RICO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RICO</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a>

keen456 keen456The recent lawsuit against cheat maker Wallhax uses a novel construction of the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a> (thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kathryntewson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kathryntewson</a> ) in addition to being a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RICO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RICO</a> case. Details here: <a href="https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1656030317864525824" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1656030317864525824</a> and here: <a href="https://twitter.com/dmschmeyer/status/1656021011475619841" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/dmschmeyer/status/1656021011475619841</a>

Cory DoctorowIII. They were able to *hoard* the twiddling, using laws like the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMCA</a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Noncompetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noncompetes</a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/TradeSecrecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeSecrecy</a>, and other "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a>" laws to control the conduct of their competitors, critics and customers:<a href="https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/</a>That last point is important: it's not just that big corporations twiddle us to death - it's that they have made it illegal for us to twiddle back. Adblock is possible on the web, but to ad-block your <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iphone</a>, you must first jailbreak it, which is a crime.23/

Cory DoctorowBut now that Netflix has come for your family, don't even *think* about giving Netfix some of what it gave to the MPAA.As a technical matter, it's not that hard to modify Netflix's app so that every stream you pull seems to come from your house, no matter where you are. But doing so requires reverse-engineering Netflix's app, and that would violate <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMCA</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Section1201" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Section1201</a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a>, and eleventy-seven other horrible laws. Netflix's lawyers would nuke you until the rubble bounced.31/

Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️Congratulations to <a href="https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@riana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@riana</a> Riana Pfeffercorn for this brilliant article "Shooting the Messenger: Remediation of Disclosed Vulnerabilities as CFAA “Loss."" It importantly covers the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abuse</a> of the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a> to silence <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/vulnerability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vulnerability</a> researchers due to the low (and arbitrary IMHO) loss threshold for a suit to be brought. Here's the killer line: "The CFAA still lets litigious vendors “shoot the messenger” by suing over security research that did them no harm. Spending just $5,000 addressing a vulnerability is sufficient to allow the vendor to sue the researcher who reported it, because such remediation costs qualify as “loss” even in courts that read that term narrowly." Pfeffercorn proposes tightening the loss definitions & calculus to remove this weapon from the hands of companies suing researchers in bad faith. Also from the acknowledgements: "This article is dedicated to the memories of Peter Eckersley, Elliot Harmon, Dan Kaminsky, Dmitry Karshtedt, and Sherwin Siy." *snif* Someone's cutting onions in here. <a href="https://jolt.richmond.edu/files/2022/11/Pfefferkorn-Manuscript-Final.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jolt.richmond.edu/files/2022/11/Pfefferkorn-Manuscript-Final.pdf</a>

Rick Carback | Voting&Privacy<a href="https://freeradical.zone/@privacat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@privacat</a> Re 2) I am very sorry, I did not mean to imply that I thought you were pro or anti scraping. It was all about consequences of a blanket court ruling that it could be banned via <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a>. I do not know how possible that is, tbh...

Carey LeningThis represents a big win for <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/LinkedIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LinkedIn</a> (and possibly one for <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a>).If LI can pursue their <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a> claims against HiQ, that puts some <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#databrokers</a> in a tight spot: no more scraping our data for free! But... What this is really about is LI extracting all that sweet, sweet <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#licensing</a> $$$. Now LI has more leverage and can charge more, but our data is still likely to be shared widely with brokers anyway. Court Sides With LinkedIn in Data Scraping Lawsuit vs. hiQ Labs <a href="https://www.adweek.com/media/court-sides-with-linkedin-in-data-scraping-lawsuit-vs-hiq-labs/#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.adweek.com/media/court-sides-with-linkedin-in-data-scraping-lawsuit-vs-hiq-labs/#</a>

📡 RightToPrivacy & Tech Tips"Dangerous Ruling Says If Someone Goes Into Openly Shared Google Drive, They Can Be Sued For Unauthorized Access"<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GoogleDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoogleDrive</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cloud</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Storage</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Law</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Infosec</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OSINT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSINT</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/27/dangerous-ruling-says-if-someone-goes-onto-your-openly-shared-google-drive-you-can-sue-them-for-unauthorized-access/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/27/dangerous-ruling-says-if-someone-goes-onto-your-openly-shared-google-drive-you-can-sue-them-for-unauthorized-access/</a>

VICE NewsDOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7d9nb/department-of-justice-security-researchers-new-cfaa-policy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7d9nb/department-of-justice-security-researchers-new-cfaa-policy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vice</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bot</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ComputerFraudandAbuseAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerFraudandAbuseAct</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/hackinglaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hackinglaw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hacking</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hackers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CYBER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CYBER</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HACK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HACK</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CFAA</a>

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