re: #108 unproven innocence

Obama wants Congress to increase prison sentences for hackers
Proposal also expands hacking definition. That’s a “dangerous idea,” expert says. by David Kravets - Jan 14 2015, 5:15pm EST

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Have you ever deleted or otherwise restricted cookies? That might get you past a paywall that you were not even aware of. While browsing a pron site, have you ever manually tweaked a URL from …1.jpg to …2.jpg to explore the site? Truncated a URL to try navigating to a higher level in the directory? Ever downloaded a file that included a copyright notice and a warning like “no copying by any means is permitted without prior written permission”?

Might cost you 10 years, now. For each violation.

None of what you describe would be hacking under the new definition because obscurity is not a technological barrier.