Court to DOJ: Surfing on Work PC Isn’t Hacking

Have you ever checked your personal email from a work computer? The idea that checking email, or a quick visit to Facebook, Twitter or other any social media site might be considered “hacking” and land you in prison is preposterous. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals injected a dose of sanity into the government’s insane push to make people criminals under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for violating their employer’s computer use policy. The 9-2 decision in U.S. v.