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rocqua on June 5, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpret...

Not every action requires authorization though.

pbhjpbhj on June 6, 2021 [–]

For sure, it's been a while but IIRC the CFAA (and UK's CMA) refer to use of certain legal classes of computer "without authorization" or "exceeding authorization". Legal authorisation is an active state rather than something that happens passively.

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