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apaprocki on April 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3rd Circuit vacates Weev's conviction [pdf]

It sounds like this could have bearing on the Tidbit / Jeremy Rubin case. He was from MIT attending a hackathon and NJ decided to go after him along the same lines using the CFAA -- his hack could be used to defraud residents of NJ -- even though he had no connection to NJ.

http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N5/charan.html

dsr_ on April 11, 2014 [–]

Was he in NJ at the time? The state that you are in when you commit an alleged offense is a proper venue.

function_seven on April 11, 2014 | [–]

No. Their rationale is that residents of NJ could possibly be harmed.

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