lawsuit against the latter, alleging violations of several Acts – specifically the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) as appertains to this discussion. Of concern was the move by Power Ventures to facilitate the aggregation of the social media accounts of a user such that the user could use just a single website to view activities (including messages and posts by friends) in the said social media accounts. In essence, users of the Power Ventures website, Power.com, had an option of accessing their profile on Facebook via the said website. It is important to note that although third parties are permitted by Facebook… Continue Reading...
of their attempts at exposing web infrastructural susceptibilities. The American CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) prohibits hacking, or the breaching of private computers and networks; however, web security specialists utilize hacking projects for exposing security shortcomings with an aim to resolve them. Critical.IO exposed a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol flaw which endangered as many as fifty million PCs, and ended up resolving it by hacking PCs. This drove numerous technology users to suggest that federal rules regulating cybercrime ought to consider hacking intent rather than the act (What Are the Moral Issues with Internet Privacy?).
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