Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there

Re:Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there by rhcom2 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:02PM (#20471177)

> Could you imagine how bad it would be if Congress got excited about the potential for internet crime in 1985, tried to guess the form of the problems that would arise, and then wrote laws banning and permitting things that they thought would lead to trouble?

Didn't they try to do that with 1984's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

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Re:Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there by moftz on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:56PM (#20471717)

Breaking into computer systems was already something that was happening then. Maybe they went a little overboard with the wording but it's not like Congress invented hacking.

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Re:Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there by wyldfire on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:30PM (#20472082)

> Maybe they went a little overboard with the wording but it's not like Congress invented hacking.

Believe it or not but CFAA would likely have not come about if not for the classic film "WarGames" [1].

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=7rBLCZuEOswC&pg=PA38&lpg=P...

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Re:Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there by bpchaps on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:21PM (#20471979)

A little overbroad is somewhat of an understatement..

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Re:Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there by DuskStar on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:07PM (#20471837)

Instead, they outlawed visiting google.com (by a strict reading of "unauthorized access")

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