Hacker News: huatillahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=huatillaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:33:20 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by huatilla in "Viewing website HTML code is not illegal or “hacking,” prof. tells Missouri gov."]]>The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act outlaws "unauthorized access". The website owner clearly did not authorize access to that, so the letter of the law may have been violated. Maybe the law should require malice, criminal intent, and actual harm to have happened for "unauthorized access" to be a crime.

]]>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 03:44:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996182huatillahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996182