Adversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA - Schneier on Security

As I've noted in the past ICT related legislation tends to be considerably over broad in scope ay the best of times, and prosecuters have tried very hard to open it up further with case law. Whilst some judges do pull things in a bit, to many alow prosecutorial over reach go to far. A rule of thumb for legislation should be to reset any proposed legislation from ICT and see what equivalent legislation exists for non ICT situations. Thus any ICT legislation should be similarly restrained in scope. After all it is not illegal to walk up to somebodies door and knock politely, if you've made a nusance of yourself there are civil remidies. However ICT legislation makes the equivalent online activity actually a criminal activity from the get go, and it's frequently treated as something worse than armed robbery.