Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren’t the Same Thing

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Appeals recentlyruled in favorof a company who claim their computer organisation was sabotaged by a labor conglutination that recount its members emails to their employer about a dispute . But the bang was n’t spamming . It was forhacking .

The claim , as lawyer Nick Akerman points out , say the purported crime did not involve any variety of unlawful entry into the information processing system system of Pulte ’s ( the company in enquiry ) .

“ To return a high volume of calls , . . . [ the Union ] both hired an auto - dialing service and requested its members to call Pulte [ Homes , a homebuilder ] . It also encouraged its penis , through postings on its website , to “ fight back ” by using . . . [ the Union ’s ] waiter to send e - mails to specific Pulte executives . Most of the calls and e - mails implicated Pulte ’s propose unjust lying-in practices , though some communications included threats and repulsive language . ” Id. at * 1 .

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Rather , Pulte ’s email system was configure to only handle so many emails and froze up once that limit had been exceeded . Believing the labor union knew this all along , the court of justice reckon the act to be malicious , and issued their ruling using an interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act , which TechDirt highlights :

[ We ] resolve that a transmission that weaken a sound computer system - or , similarly , one that diminish a plaintiff ’s power to use data point or a scheme - causes damage .

And maybe such an act is malicious , but that ’s not hack . It would be spamming . royal court should at least have enough understanding to class the crime by rights if they ’re going to give out a penalization . [ Computer Fraud/ Data ProtectionviaInternet LawviaTechDirt ]

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