Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is "Hacking"

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @07:02AM from the if-you-send-it-more-than-twice-your-hacking-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An appeals court has ruled that having people send a company a lot of emails (in this case, a union protesting a company's business practices) qualifies as hacking under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. We're not even talking about a true DDoS action here, but just a bunch of protest emails. Part of the problem is that the company apparently set up their email to only hold a small number of emails in their inbox, and the court seems to think the union should take the blame for stuffing those inboxes."

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My Mailbox at Home is Full by rotide · 2011-08-10 07:08 · Score: 5, Funny

My physical mailbox at home is kind of small and when I go on vacation it can get full to the point of no longer being able to put more mail in. Do I get to go after Capital One or any/all of the other habitual mail spammers now? If not, why? Because this Act only covers electrons flowing through wires and not physical items physically limiting my mailbox?