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Re: Boston subway restraining order quashed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James S. Tyre)
Tue Aug 19 15:46:00 2008
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:43:22 -0700
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@jstyre.com>
In-Reply-To: <87myj8ol48.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
X-Mail-from: jstyre@jstyre.com
At 03:33 PM 8/19/2008 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/federal-judge-t.html
MBTA's claim was based on CFAA, the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act. Properly, the judge decided (in effect) that CFAA only applies
to messing with computers (a legal term of fanciful art), not to
speaking about software that might mess with computers.
The more interesting question, which has not been addressed, is
whether the CFAA definition of "computer" is so broad that it would
include the CharlieCard and/or CharlieTicket. The Complaint alleges
specifically that both are computers.
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