| ▲ | pkilgore 16 hours ago | |
The problem with the CFAA is that it is so (IMO unconstitutionally) broad it is feasible that _every American_ has arguably violated it in some way, completely accidentally. Thus, every time we see a CFAA charge we have to ask ourselves: "Is this an abuse of power?". We should have better, clearer laws. | ||
| ▲ | rtkwe 14 hours ago | parent [-] | |
There are a lot of bogus CFAA cases but it seems like this one is within the boundaries of reasonable law enforcement if the description posted above [0] is accurate. The quick summary is (reddit) OP's husband was fired from a job and used old unrevoked access to crash their servers, was briefly contracted to fix it before the company found out they were the source of the crash and terminated them again, then after all that he then gained access to their DR facilities and physically damaged a number of servers. If that's true it seems like a pretty cut and dry CFAA case (with some extra normal crime on top to boot) and the main issue to take with it is the FBI using it as leverage to get him to compromise his TOR node. | ||