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The Washington Post – The Cybersecurity 202: There’s finally a Supreme Court battle coming over the nation’s main hacking law

“Computer researchers are constantly afraid that a security test they run is going to run them afoul of the law,” Tor Ekeland, an attorney who specializes in defending people accused of violating the CFAA, told me. “This law makes the Internet less safe because it chills legitimate information security research and it’s bad for the economy because it chills innovation.”

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Elissa Stanton May 6, 2020

The CFAA will soon have its day before the Supreme Court – CYBERSCOOP

“This law was written before the internet became what it is,” defense attorney Tor Ekeland, an outspoken CFAA critic who represented Keys said during a recent interview. “The other big issue is the draconian sentences that these statutes allow. It’s disproportionate to the actual harm influence in, I think, every case I’ve ever worked on.” Tor Ekeland in Cyberscoop article

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TorEkelandLawPLLC April 23, 2020

What’s Up with WhatsApp: Thoughts on the NSO CFAA Complaint

I’ve been getting a lot of calls asking me what I think about the civil Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) lawsuit WhatsApp just filed in the Northern District of California against NSO. Below this post are links to my comments in the press. Here’s the complaint: I’m going to elaborate a little more on the complaint because it’s a

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Tor Ekeland October 30, 2019

Room 3420 and the Birth of the Internet

The internet turns 50 today. At 10:30pm PT on October 29, 1969 in room 3420 at UCLA the first networked digital data transmission was sent to a computer, 350 miles away, at Stanford University. The computer operator at Stanford replied, and the computer operator in Room 3420 gained access to the computer at Stanford. Prior to this communication between computers

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Tor Ekeland October 29, 2019

The Julian Assange Indictment

I’m getting asked a lot of questions about the Assange indictment because it involves the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. And extradition. Two things we’ve got some experience with through representing Lauri Love and others.

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Tor Ekeland April 11, 2019

Interview with Futurism.com “Computer Fraud Laws are Flawed, this Lawyer is Fighting Against Them”

Futurism just released an interview with Tor Ekeland. Check it out: Tor Ekeland, hacker lawyer, fights back against the harsh punishments decreed using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. And one of those fights can be seen in “Trust Machine,” available now at Breaker.io. Futurism interview description You can find it on futurism.com https://futurism.com/videos/computer-fraud-laws-flawed YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1SErcUkxMw and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/futurism/videos/2293723320915384/UzpfSTMzMzk0MjY4NjYyNDI0MzoyNTA1MDU4MjU2MTc5MzMx/

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TorEkelandLawPLLC March 18, 2019
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