First to clarify:
As used in this section—
(1) the term “computer” means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device, but such term does not include an automated typewriter or typesetter, a portable hand held calculator, or other similar device;
The first version of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (1984) did NOT make it illegal just to access a computer or view its data, but that was changed in 1996, in the National Information Infrastructure Act. Unauthorized access to a computer or network, viewing its data, is a crime.who knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period;
If there is not enough shit the feds can throw at you, then they'll use the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, as that provides punishment for unauthorized access to a communication device, the internet connected computer, or webcam (gee)
http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitep ... l/1446.php
You dont even compare to Linsey Lohan, she might have spent only an hour in jail, but you bet she paid out a lot in fines. You think rich people got off, but you never heard how much they had to pay for top notch lawyers and fines to make the courts happy. Believe me, just get a drunk driving ticket in your state.
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