No. No it isn't. This ruling does not state that hacking is legal, it says that it isn't a 4th Amendment violation.
As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016508
>Someone not having a reasonable expectation of privacy in a thing does not mean it is legal to hack their computer.
And there's an explicit legal exemption of hacking for law enforcement in the CFAA.
No. No it isn't. This ruling does not state that hacking is legal, it says that it isn't a 4th Amendment violation.
As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016508
>Someone not having a reasonable expectation of privacy in a thing does not mean it is legal to hack their computer.
And there's an explicit legal exemption of hacking for law enforcement in the CFAA.