Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, was charged last month with five offences under the Criminal Law and Computer Misuse Acts, including an alleged hacking attack against Soca's website.
Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard University, said it would be a lot to ask a company like Vodafone to actively resist the Egyptian government's requests, especially when there may be engineers on the ground in Egypt who could be arrested or harassed.
Forced tracking and attacking (levels 2-4) violate U.S. federal law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes unauthorized access to systems and data.
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The law essentially criminalizes anyone who gains unauthorized access to computer systems, and many private individuals have used the law to sue Internet companies like Yahoo, Amazon.com and DoubleClick for placing "cookies" on computer hard drives, Freeman said.
Orin Kerr of the George Washington University Law School wrote an excellent OpEd for the WSJ on the obscure law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in 1986.
Orin Kerr, a professor at George Washington University Law School and former computer-crime attorney at the Justice Department, said sovereign immunity usually is applied in lawsuits against the government that seek monetary damages, not in cases disputing the constitutionality of a law.
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Following Swartz's death, US House Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act called Aaron's Law.
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In addition to medical devices, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Logistics Agency sold or donated more than 77, 900 pieces of computer equipment to various federal, state and local law enforcement agencies that also may be at risk of Year 2000 failures.
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One of my colleagues has been working on a federal investigation into the systematic compromise of computer infrastructures of law firms that specialize in patents and intellectual property.
She proposed a round-the-clock cyber-crime network, along with the regional computer forensic labs and a secure on-line clearinghouse for law enforcement to share information about cyber-cases.
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Once installed, the computer freezes and a screen is displayed warning the user they have violated United States Federal Law.
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In addition to denying it condones computer hacking, China also has said that it is itself a victim of cyberattacks and that Chinese law forbids such attacks.
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Moore's Law alone, which decrees that computer-processing power will double every 18 months and has at least another ten years to run, will soon allow computers to do things that are almost unimaginable.
Each university will have an incentive to run an efficient and professional rating process, providing a real-world training lab for undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of backgrounds (economics, computer engineering, political science, law, finance).
One area where Moore's law can be seen alive and well seems to be the developer and small project computer world.
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She said there was a requirement in law that such assessments were carried out in primary schools and a trial of the computer-based assessments had shown no major faults.
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