Prosecutors have accused a Florida journalist of violating the CFAA anti-hacking law to obtain and leak un-aired Tucker Carlson clips that embarrassed Fox News. Attorneys for Timothy Burke say he hacked nothing, and that the clips were publicly available and unencrypted.
Mark Rasch, one of the attorneys on Burke's defense team, says prosecutors are using a “novel and unsupported” interpretation of the CFAA to assert a crime that doesn’t exist under the law and justify the raid on Burke's home office. Rasch understand the CFAA better than most. He's a former federal prosecutor who helped craft CFAA. I looked into the case:
https://zetter.substack.com/p/did-a-journalist-violate-hacking
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