Court Says Sending Too Many Emails To Someone Is Computer Hacking

Re:Court Says Sending Too Many Emails To Someone Is Computer... by TuxPirate on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @07:33PM (#2865975)

This is the kind of strategy activists use, for instance Greenpeace uses this extensively:

To keep up the pressure we urgently ask you to send an email to the Danish minister for foreign affairs, Per Stig Møller. --http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/take-action/denmark

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Re:Court Says Sending Too Many Emails To Someone Is Computer... by Joakal on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @08:42PM (#2866193)

There's no malice in this unless Greenpeace tells their followers to spam and/or clog them which this Union explicitly did. "When the Union ignored his request, the company filed suit for, among other things, a violation of the CFAA for “knowingly caus[ing] the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally caus[ing] damage without authorization, to a protected computer.” 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A). "

Your statement of Greenpeace is disingenuous and bordering on slant.

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