10.02.2015 - 08:38 [ Techdirt ]

CIA Wanted To Throw The CFAA At Senate Staffers For Unauthorized Googling

According to the CIA‘s investigators, Senate staffers accessed documents they weren‘t supposed to see, apparently by „abusing“ the shared network set up explicitly for the Torture Report compilation. What Wheeler spotted — in a very thorough fisking of the CIA investigative report by Katherine Hawkins of Just Security — is the attempted criminalization of Google searches.