ABA Journal

Hacker’s Hell: Many want to narrow the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

By Stephanie Francis Ward

May 24, 2013, 05:13 pm CDT

Angered that the Internet site PayPal had ceased allowing its users to donate to the controversial online publisher WikiLeaks, 14 computer users allegedly fought back. They sent PayPal multiple communication requests, a program that hackers use to saturate networks with information and crash them.

One of the programmers, Keith W.… full story