Court Rebukes DOJ, Says Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as Hacker

Between this and the SOPA/PIPA/etc. pushes, you can tell the US Government <i>WANTS SO BADLY</i> to dictate the boundaries of the free Internet. It brings up the old bit, "you can tell you're free because this is what freedom looks like."

Prior relevant reporting: <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/anti-hacking-law-too-broad/?utm_source=Contextly&#38;utm_medium=RelatedLinks&#38;utm_campaign=Previous" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/anti-hacking-law-to...</a>

Technology created the Internet and, as such, technology is really the only thing to make it safe from "hacking".<p>Laws are abstract concepts easily broken: especially by those who write them. Laws have never assured security (and that goes for things beyond just the internet).