Questions involving the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is frequently cited in hacking questions. A similar law in the U.K. is the computer-misuse-act.
Questions tagged [cfaa]
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Is it illegal (under US law) to "manually" mass download from JSTOR?
Say I wish to determine the frequency of the use of the word "apple" in academic articles. And so I want to get as many academic articles as possible for analysis.
I have access (through my university) to JSTOR. Using my personal computer and my…
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Is it illegal to modify url data?
Say i did something like https://SomeSite.com/variableThing=**MyValue**
instead of https://SomeSite.com/variableThing=**DefaultValue**
Can I be held accountable for any errors that the variable generates on the server end.
The servers are probably…
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