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.
When a criminal uses a computer to commit crimes, law enforcement may be able, through lawful legal process, to identify the computer or subscriber account based on its IP address.
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It went on, via an extended tweet, to remind people of the Law Against Computer Misuse.
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That includes any luck in locating Tsarnaev's laptop computer, which a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation had said investigators were looking for.
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.
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.
If the user enters the wrong password several times and then is connected to the Internet, the company will locate the computer through its Internet protocol address, information that can help law enforcement agencies recover the computer, Lide said.
Other employees misused a confidential law-enforcement computer to find out who had taken their parking spaces.
Or that the suit was based on a federal law aimed at computer hackers, not manufacturers of defective products.
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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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.
The applicable criminal law in federal law is the Computer Abuse Act of 1984, which has been amended several times over the years, said Reed Freeman, another e-commerce lawyer at Arent Fox.
At tables scattered across the cafeteria of the Shepard Broad Law Center, students have their faces buried in computer screens as they access a variety of applications over the law school's wireless LAN.
As far as the criminal law is concerned, computer forensics has come a long way.
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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).
Ackroyd was due to stand trial charged with taking part in a string of cyber-attacks, but today pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorised act to impair the operation of a computer, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977.
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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The FBI has recovered the computer, a U.S. law-enforcement official said.
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.
But in January, the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, agreed with other EU justice ministers to consider a key-escrow policy, which would allow law enforcement agencies access to the computer codes used to scramble information.
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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In a 1965 article for Electronics magazine he formulated Moore's Law, which predicted that the power of computer chips would double every year (later revised to every 18 months) while the cost would decrease at a similar rate.
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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The law currently differentiates between emails stored on your home computer versus those stored on the server of a third party, because of the way technology worked back in 1986.
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He fell foul of the law again in 2011, after attaching a laptop computer inside the MIT network (easily achieved as, although not a member of MIT, he was, at 24, already a grand old man of computing) and downloading around 4 million journal articles from JSTOR, the access-protected academic document storage system.
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On the other hand, the law's significance is likely to diminish, as computer-buyers demand more than just speed from their machines and chip designers tailor their wares accordingly.
Joseph Bankman, a tax law professor at Stanford University, thinks lobbying by the computer industry will block changes to the status quo, but he's got other ideas for the IRS to make filing taxes easier.
And the number of refunds could be down this year because of law changes or other factors unrelated to the fraud filters or computer problems.
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