Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
WASHINGTON — Stung by recent court decisions that have gone against them, Justice Department lawyers are making a fresh push to clarify a computer trespass law that critics malign as overly broad. The 1986 law, known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, was intended to punish hackers who breach someone else’s computer network and steal information from it. But federal prosecutors have struggled at times in applying it to people who have permission to access a computer — a police department database, for instance, or a corporate network — but abuse that right by using for purposes that have not been authorized. The concerns attracted attention this year after President Barack Obama suggested changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as part of a broader proposal. The Justice Department has appealed to Congress, which is expected to take up other cybersecurity measures in coming weeks. “These are really hard issues of what should the law cover and what should it not cover,” said George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr. “It’s totally understandable that we’re having this discussion and not sure what the answer should be, because this is a new kind of technological problem.” Critics, including judges, […]
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