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Felonies should be restricted to unauthorized access for commercial advantage or private fair market financial gain exceeding $10,000.
They should be related to other felonies. Examples include identity theft, obtaining trade secrets, criminal copyright infringement, or stealing classified government information.
They should apply to damaging computer systems if doing so impairs medical diagnoses or treatment, injures people other ways, creates public health or safety issues, affects government computers used for justice, national defense, or national security, and/or is done for commercial advantage or significant private financial gain.
After Aaron Swartz's death, EFF called for fixing draconian computer crime law. Doing so requires penalties proportionate to wrongdoing.
EFF called Aaron Swartz "a close friend and collaborator." His suspicious death was more than a personal tragedy. It was "the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach," said EFF.
He spent months battling unjust charges. His case highlights profound CFAA abuses. Hacking laws are broad, vague and unfair. They call for excessive penalties. They overstep and overreach.
Aaron was no super-hacker. He was targeted to silence him. He may have been murdered in the process. Julian Assange thinks so. "Read his words," he said. "Decide for yourself."
"I believe Swartz was murdered by a team of copyright assassins who made it look like a simple suicide. Watch what you say or you may end up like" Aaron.
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