Okay, let's cut the crap. Speaking as a knowledgable lawyer (It's not my specialty, but I studied it intensely in the past with experts :P), they are in fact, quite difficult to interpret.

This is even empirically true: Different federal appeals courts (which have panels of knowledgable judges) have come to different conclusions about the scope, reach, and interpretation of different parts of the law.

I'm not sure what your evidence is to the contrary.

Thank you.

I would only point out that it's actually both: Not only are they unclear, even if they were clarified but still prohibited roughly the same breadth of things with the same extraordinary penalties, we still should not like them. A law that plausibly imposes the same (felony) penalty for using one's brother's laptop without permission as for breaking into a military intelligence satellite to steal classified materials is a defective law in need of serious reform.

So interpret this for me: Is posting a deep-linking URL a crime or not?

A publically linked URL...fine

A URL you found by guessing URLs, like say on an internal test site? You're on your own

Can you please cite exactly what provision you believe this violates, and back it up with caselaw?

So someone publicly links it who guessed it and a bunch of other people start linking it. Are all of the secondary people ok?