The fundamental question in the case is what Congress did when it criminalized unauthorized access to a computer. In particular, what makes an access to a computer unauthorized? Do the terms of service control? Does there need to be some sort of technical restriction on access that is breached?
To put the question in colloquial terms, the question is, what is the crime of hacking?
The Israeli lawsuit, once filed, will join at least four on-going lawsuits submitted to US courts against Chinese authorities over the pandemic, according to Newsweek.
How much compensation would China be forced to pay if and when such lawsuits are ruled upon? According to the Daily Examiner, the figure might be as high as six trillion US Dollars.
A delay by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in quickly making coronavirus test kits available was the result of “a glaring scientific breakdown” at the CDC’s central lab, The Washington Post reported Saturday, citing scientists and federal regulators.
The Post reported that CDC facilities which assembled the testing kits “violated sound manufacturing practices, resulting in contamination of one of the three test components used in the highly sensitive detection process.”
And while the part of the test that was compromised was not critical to detecting the coronavirus, CDC officials took more than a month to remove it from the test kits, according to The Post.
That lag in action aggravated national delays in testing for the virus, and in turn hampered a battle to contain the virus’s spread, the newspaper said.
Sad, but unsurprising. The CDC just isn't very good at its job.
Related: The CDC was Fighting Racism and Obesity Instead of Stopping Epidemics.
You had one job, CDC.
I reviewed one of the "fact checking" sites. It is just as biased as the sort of news it claims to check.
Realizing that a self-proclaimed fact checking site cannot be more biased, it became clear that NO ONE in power should be doing ANY fact checking. Rather, all fact checking should be on the part of the reader. You want to create tools to help readers obtain information, great. But, don't prevent us from reading things based on some biased "fact checking" that is anything but unbiased.
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