Researchers to Supreme Court: Terms of service violations shouldn’t be CFAA crime
As the Supreme Court prepares to consider a controversial federal anti-hacking law, a group of prominent cybersecurity researchers and legal advocates is pleading with the court not to criminalize digital research in the public interest. In a brief filed with the court Wednesday led by digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, the researchers warned that if violations of a company’s “terms of service” are deemed to be illegal, it risks chilling important research into voting systems, medical devices and other key equipment. “Despite widespread agreement about the importance of this work—including by the government itself— researchers face legal threat for engaging in socially beneficial security testing,” wrote the EFF, the nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology, and cybersecurity companies Bugcrowd, Rapid7, SCYTHE and Tenable. Famous security researchers like Peiter “Mudge” Zatko and Chris Wysopal, who warned Congress of the internet’s insecurities in the 1990s as members of the L0pht hacking collective, […]
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