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7th Circuit rules deleting computer data violates law

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act's (CFAA) prohibition on transmitting a program, in order to damage a computer, includes erasing all the data from a laptop. The Seventh Circuit's Mar. 8 opinion also held it doesn't matter whether the perpetrator has physical access to the computer or damages it from a remote location. According to ...

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