{"id":2298,"date":"2022-06-26T19:16:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T00:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T01:06:58","slug":"us-anti-hacking-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2022\/06\/us-anti-hacking-laws","title":{"rendered":"Blanket anti-hacking laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a lawyer, much less a cyber lawyer, but I was recently wondering \u201care there any laws\u2014especially federal ones\u2014that cover just plain old Hacking <i>per se<\/i>?\u201d Say someone breaks into your blog, maybe they look at your drafts, maybe they deface the front page\u2026 is that, <em>in and of itself<\/em>, a crime no matter where in the United States your attacker is?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is\u2014Yes! <cite><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">18 USC \u00a71030<\/code><\/cite> makes it a federal Class C felony to access computers you're not authorized to in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically (with definitions from <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">18 USC \u00a71030 (e)<\/code>, classifications from <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">\u00a73559 (a)(3)<\/code>, fines from <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">\u00a73571 (b)(3)<\/code>, and emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><cite><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">18 USC \u00a71030 (a)(2)(C)<\/code><\/cite>Whoever \u2026 intentionally accesses a computer without authorization \u2026 and thereby <strong>obtains \u2026 information from<\/strong> any [computer \u2026 which is used in <em>or affecting<\/em> interstate \u2026 communication] \u2026 The punishment \u2026 is\u2014 a fine [not more than $250,000] or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both \u2026 [even for] an attempt \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><cite><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">18 USC \u00a71030 (a)(5)(A)<\/code><\/cite>Whoever \u2026 intentionally causes \u2026 [any <strong>impairment to the integrity or availability<\/strong> of data, a program, a system, or information] without authorization, to a [computer \u2026 which is used in <em>or affecting<\/em> interstate \u2026 communication] \u2026 The punishment \u2026 is\u2014 \u2026 a fine [not more than $250,000], imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both \u2026 [even for] an attempt \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the courts are <a href=\"https:\/\/lain.com\/notice\/AKom475LNIcgbxXoqO\">very, very, <em>unreasonably<\/em> generous<\/a> with their interpretation of the word \"affecting\", so I doubt one would even need to show that the system ever sent packets across state lines in order to fit that requirement.<\/p>\n<p>As for state laws, it looks like someone already compiled a big list of them: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/telecommunications-and-information-technology\/computer-hacking-and-unauthorized-access-laws.aspx\">www.ncsl.org\/research\/telecommunications-and-information-technology\/computer-hacking-and-unauthorized-access-laws.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a lawyer, much less a cyber lawyer, but I was recently wondering \u201care there any laws\u2014especially federal ones\u2014that cover just plain old Hacking per se?\u201d Say someone breaks into your blog, maybe they look at your drafts, maybe they deface the front page\u2026 is that, in and of itself, a crime no &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts","category-writeups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}