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Re:Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal... by lidHanteyk on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:52PM (#22739537)
Welcome to the central failure of the CFAA: Hacking attempts should be treated as a normal part of life, and systems should be designed to resist hacking, but the law gets this exactly backwards. In a saner legislative setting, hacking would be like harmful radio wave interference, something which is both punishable in a court of law but also which devices are designed to consider in the course of normal operation.
Re:Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal... by google234123 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:59PM (#22739615)
Hacking attempts are treated as a normal part of life and systems are designed to resist hacking. Fortunately, we also have to law acting as an additional form of deterrent.
Re:Court: Violating a site’s terms of service isn’t criminal... by dependenttypes on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:38PM (#22740108)
> hacking would be like harmful radio wave interference

DoS attacks specifically. I would argue that any other form of hacking should not be punishable and it should only be up to the devices to protect against them.