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Re:US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Ab... by secothroa on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:50PM (#27388462)
>His reasons for accessing the data were wrong

This, by definition, makes his access unauthorized. That's the point. "Authorization" is more than just technical controls. He was not authorized to access the data for this reason.

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Re:US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Ab... by willseth on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:34PM (#27388787)
> "Authorization" is more than just technical controls.

You are applying too broad a definition to "authorization." In this context it refers specifically to the configured authorization behavior of the computer system. They gave him the equivalent of a key to a lock implemented in the computer system, and the law is meant to address the equivalent of someone who pick locks, not someone who misuses the access provided by keys they were given.

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Re:US Supreme Court Restricts Scope of Computer Fraud and Ab... by kstrauser on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:33PM (#27388780)
> "Authorization" is more than just technical controls.

SCOTUS just literally said the opposite.

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