“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)
The Cybersecurity 202: A fight in Missouri shows the damage of overbroad hacking laws
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October 25, 2021
Tor was interviewed by the Washington Post as part of their Cybersecurity 202 column. “The governor’s office is trying to divert attention from the fact