In case what's missing from your life is a careful legal analysis from @OrinKerr about Donald Trump Jr's possible liability under the CFAA...https://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/990513087940907009 …
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Replying to @benjaminwittes @OrinKerr
Orin's analysis may be right, but I'd say it makes the CFAA looks worse than Don Trump Jr. As all the lefty tech groups would be saying if the case didn't involve a Trump.
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Replying to @stewartbaker @benjaminwittes
I don’t quite see why. Why should this be legal? I thought it was shared ground that using another’s pw w/o permission was a no-no, if just a misdemeanor.
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Replying to @OrinKerr @benjaminwittes
What Donald Trump Jr apparently did was the most natural thing in the world. He logged on to see if the information he'd been given was true. So the CFAA criminalizes normal human conduct despite a lack of harm or ill intent. Hard to call that a great moment in jurisprudence.
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Replying to @stewartbaker @benjaminwittes
He logged in with a stolen password given to him by Wikileaks to see if he could get intel on enemies on a site he knew he wasn’t supposed to access, and that’s your “most natural thing in the world” with no bad intent? Curious view of the world, Stewart.
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It kills me to say this, but I’m with Stewart. This is a crime in the same way that turning a doorknob is a crime when somebody tells you the bank door is unlocked. The crime should be based on what you do next. Which *even your* argument emphasizes.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @OrinKerr and
To be fair, this disproves Stewarts statement about the "lefties", as even some at the EFF have come out on this side.
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I've said this shouldn't be prosecuted. It's still technically a violation of the law. Just like Hillary's server.
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Replying to @emptywheel @ErrataRob and
If it shouldn't be prosecuted then it shouldn't be law either.
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