While it's true that "hard cases make bad law", there's no doubt whatsoever that Nosal was objectively guilty of CFAA violations AND was guilty of genuine crimes. This isn't a "You're going to jail for sharing your NetFlix password" case. Nosal was trying to steal client information from his previous employer by getting into his previous employer's computer systems using credentials that he was not supposed to have.
Politicians have only one ability when it comes to technology; to screw things up. I want politicians who do not try to micro-manage the things that they cannot possibly understand.
Hillary may be the most Luddite presidential candidate in the last 50 years.
I want the next president to take the same attitude toward technology in general as Barack Obama has taken toward the space program; ignore it and get out of the way. Hillary will NOT do that. Trump probably would.
A Trump candidacy would be, ala Forrest Gump, "like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get." We KNOW what a Hillary presidency would be and it would be BAD. VERY bad.
Isn't TechDirt BASED in San Francisco? Then you, or your employees, probably VOTED for this harridan multiple times; when she was at City Hall, when she ran for Mayor, and now for an interminably-long time, in the Senate. Between SF and LA, there are enough low-information city voters to keep electing these two witches of the West, Feinstein and Boxer. There aren't enough of us Sacramento and mountain folks to retire that bint and send her treasonous butt home.
Whatever lunacy Feinstein is promoting now, it's just same-old, same-old for the idiocy she's been peddling for 30 years.
"If US Is Really Able To Target ISIS Sites Based On Social Media Posts... Why Is It Trying To Stop ISIS From Using Social Media?"
Because very few jihadis are foolish enough to post photos of recognizable buildings and say "I work there!". It's not as if they're posting photos with EXIF data still attached; nobody is THAT stupid.
Nosal Was GUILTY of CFAA
While it's true that "hard cases make bad law", there's no doubt whatsoever that Nosal was objectively guilty of CFAA violations AND was guilty of genuine crimes. This isn't a "You're going to jail for sharing your NetFlix password" case. Nosal was trying to steal client information from his previous employer by getting into his previous employer's computer systems using credentials that he was not supposed to have.
Politicians
Politicians have only one ability when it comes to technology; to screw things up. I want politicians who do not try to micro-manage the things that they cannot possibly understand.
Hillary may be the most Luddite presidential candidate in the last 50 years.
I want the next president to take the same attitude toward technology in general as Barack Obama has taken toward the space program; ignore it and get out of the way. Hillary will NOT do that. Trump probably would.
A Trump candidacy would be, ala Forrest Gump, "like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get." We KNOW what a Hillary presidency would be and it would be BAD. VERY bad.
Isn't TechDirt BASED in San Francisco?
Isn't TechDirt BASED in San Francisco? Then you, or your employees, probably VOTED for this harridan multiple times; when she was at City Hall, when she ran for Mayor, and now for an interminably-long time, in the Senate. Between SF and LA, there are enough low-information city voters to keep electing these two witches of the West, Feinstein and Boxer. There aren't enough of us Sacramento and mountain folks to retire that bint and send her treasonous butt home.
Whatever lunacy Feinstein is promoting now, it's just same-old, same-old for the idiocy she's been peddling for 30 years.
"If US Is Really Able To Target ISIS Sites Based On Social Media Posts... Why Is It Trying To Stop ISIS From Using Social Media?"
Because very few jihadis are foolish enough to post photos of recognizable buildings and say "I work there!". It's not as if they're posting photos with EXIF data still attached; nobody is THAT stupid.
How To Prevent This
If there were a mandatory penalty of $100,000 per bogus DMCA takedown claim, there would be a LOT less of this.