@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange
Post #4400596
2026-08-06 00:44 UTC
@Viss@mastodon.social @jfslowik@infosec.exchange
But don't worry, they'll still throw plenty of kids in prison or hound them to suicide for the same thing.
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange 2026-08-06 06:32
@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange @Viss@mastodon.social @jfslowik@infosec.exchange but, but the first CFAA felony conviction ever was Morris. His autonomous, self-propagating program escaped his control and did damage at a scale he never intended. The worm's spread exceeded his design. The Second Circuit affirmed in 1991 that intent attaches to the unauthorized access itself, not to the downstream acts the code performed. Autonomous code has never laundered intent, from the statute's very first case. What lacks now is only a prosecutor willing to charge a lab. Too busy hounding reflecting pool visitors that can see green, or messing with Fauci.