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5th-Dec-2008 08:14 am - We're all hackers!
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Have you ever broken the rules in the Terms of Service for a website?

If your answer is yes, you may be a hacker in the eyes of the U.S. government.

Yes -- rather than thinking "cyber-bullying is reprehensible, so let's make it illegal under reasonable circumstances", US authorities instead said "we'd like this person to be punished. Let's try to stretch the definition of an existing law to find a way to punish her." As a result, someone has now been convicted of (essentially) hacking for breaking MySpace's rules.

Anybody else think this is bad?
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