Description
Under today’s interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), if executives in Florida and North Carolina each pay a rival organization’s unfaithful employee to copy trade secrets from the competitor’s information stores, the Government can charge only one executive, but not both. These cases and many others get decided differently due to the ever-widening split over the CFAA term “without authorization,” currently interpreted five separate ways.
Research the term “without authorization” as it pertains to CFAA, and, with supporting references, cite what you interpret this term to mean.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
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As it pertains to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the word ‘without authorization’
gets to mean different things. However, the major issue is to bring to the table the connection
between computer fraud and the nature of authority one has been given. There are many cases
that have been translated to mean fraud without authorization and that, which happened, yet one
has been authorized to use a certain computer. Taking an example of an employee in any
organization, they are all bound to certain rights when using computers. They may be given the
rights to access the client’s...