Government,
Criminal
Aug. 22, 2017
CFAA is a horse and buggy in a jet plane world
The first U.S. computer crime statute was enacted in 1984 and was rewritten in 1986 to become the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It wasn’t exactly fit to handle the problems presented by social media.
Jason S. Leiderman
Law Offices of Jay LeidermanEmail: Jay@Criminal-Lawyer.me
"Jay" Leiderman is an attorney in Ventura who specializes in hacking and computer crime.
HACKING THE LAW
The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has strayed violently from its origins and has failed to keep up with changes in the conduct and the technology it initially sought to address. In this first installment of a monthly series on hacking and computer crime, I will examine those problems.
As a matter of primacy, it is important to understand the history of the CFAA....
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