“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.”
Tor Ekeland, The Washington Post – “The Cybersecurity 202: There’s finally a Supreme Court battle coming over the nation’s main hacking law” (4/24/2020)
Blackstone 8: Sexism & the Common Law
Tor Ekeland
February 15, 2021
It’s common to criticize Blackstone for embracing the Common Law’s sexism. But a passage I read the other day made me critical of this attitude