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CFAA wording is unauthorized access of a _computer_, not a network.


What network equipment these days might not reasonably be described as a computer, even a pretty powerful one by the standards of the time the CFAA was written?

And even if you don't think that's reasonable, how confident are you that a prosecutor couldn't convince a judge and/or jury it is?


Networks are emergent properties of computers on all but the physical level.




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