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Re:Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations ... by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 04, 2021 @06:27PM (#27399785)
> Foreign actors can simply hire sys admins to access whatever they want, no need for hacking

This is prosecutable under a myriad of existing laws. CFAA was specifically crafted to deter and punish hacking. As far as I know, that's still very much a thing.

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Re:Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations ... by treis on Friday June 04, 2021 @07:20PM (#27400232)
It's not immediately clear which laws. The whole point of the CFAA was that existing trespass & theft laws don't really work for digital files.
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Re:Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations ... by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 04, 2021 @08:55PM (#27400920)
> not immediately clear which laws

Yes it is, theft of trade secrets [1].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dow-research-scientist...

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Re:Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations ... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:35AM (#27404398)
Espionage is illegal.
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