[tor-talk] IP Cloaking and the CFAA [Was: Appearing American]

[andrew at torproject.is]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:46:51PM -0400, psema4 at gmail.com wrote 1.4K bytes in 0 lines about:
: IP Cloaking Violates Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Judge Rules
: <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/ip-cloaking-cfaa/>
: 
: "A federal judge has ruled that circumventing an IP address blockade to
: connect to a website is a breach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the
: same law that was used to prosecute Aaron Swartzbefore he committed suicide
: earlier this year."

There's an "intent" behind doing it to circumvent a known block that
the judge ruled illegal. See the EFF's write-up of the ruling,
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/court-rules-accessing-public-website-isnt-crime-hiding-your-ip-address-could-be.
The CFAA is a horrible law which needs to be rewritten or scrapped.

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Andrew
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