http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/obama-wants-congress-to-increase-prison-sentences-for-hackers/
By David Kravets
Ars Technica
Jan 14 2015
The Obama administration, currently engaged in a war of words with North
Korea over the recent hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment, is calling
on Congress to increase prison sentences for hackers and to expand the
definition of hacking.
During next week's State of the Union address, the president is set to
publicly urge increased prison time and other changes to the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act—the statute that was used to prosecute Internet
activist Aaron Swartz before he committed suicide in 2013.
At issue is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), passed in 1984 to
bolster the government's ability to nab hackers who destroy or disrupt
computer functionality or who steal information.
In general, the CFAA makes it illegal to "knowingly and with intent to
defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds
authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended
fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and
the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value
of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period."
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