Article via chatter in #development. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/29/supreme-court-van-buren-hacking/ “If there are potential criminal (and civil) consequences for violating a computerized system’s usage policy, that would empower the owners of such systems to prohibit bona fide security research and to silence researchers from disclosing any vulnerabilities they find in those systems,” said Pfefferkorn. “Even inadvertently coloring outside the lines of a set of bug bounty rules could expose a researcher to liability.” -- Tech Crunch I'm slightly confused at how it got this far. Mainly because I guess I - and - others I know have ignored it and the companies welcoming it have ignored it. I suppose this is the beauty of US "hacking" laws and what companies and individuals can agree on.
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