I have Mozilla set to delete cookies every day, which seems to be the best balance.
If you use a Mac, the best browser for cookie management has to be Omniweb. Here's a screenshot. See the little cookie icon at the bottom of the browser window? When you click it, that sheet with the red/yellow/green dots drops down and lets you accept/deny cookies on an individual basis. Just set the default to 'deny all' and then selectively accept the ones you want as you need them. It's very slick. The last time I used Mozilla I had to dig through the preferences constantly to achieve something similar. Only one other browser that I've used (iCab) has anything close, though I must admit that I've never tried Firefox.
I simply deleted all my cookies, visited every site I *want* a cookie from and then set my cookies to be read-only.
That might not work too well if any of those sites have an ad from doubleclick or some such. I use Omniweb. There's a little cookie icon at the bottom of the window. Not only does it tells me the site domain dropping the cookie, but it also lists the domain the cookie actually belongs to. You can selectively accept/temp/deny each cookie individually. That way, you can set the browser to deny all, then when you find you need a cookie, click the cookie icon and turn it on. If you only want it for one session, use the yellow temporary selection. Most importantly, I can accept cookies from ebay, and deny ones going back to mediaplex even though both cookies are being presented on the same page. It's perfect. Mozilla can do something similar, but the last time I used Moz, I found the interface for doing it a lot less usable.
Having lots of patents doesn't work if the company suing you has patents as its only business. In that case, you have nothing to blackmail them with. Having lots of your own patents is no protection at all.
This is the most insightful comment on the board. Too bad you posted AC and mods won't give you the time of day.
Lots of people are angry about the patent system, so there is a mood to fix it. The trouble is that if it gets fixed the way Microsoft wants, we won't like it very much. Bruce may be right, we should get way more politically active.
Unfortunately, there's a problem with this approach. The American political system is broken too. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had this foolishness in the first place.
but using public-key cryptography over the network connection will stop worms and the like from causing the players to self-destruct.
I think you misunderstand my point. I'm not talking about a worm sending the drive Sony's self-destruct code. I'm talking about a worm that causes the drive to meet the requirements created by Sony in order to cause Sony to destroy it. Reading the Tom's hardware article linked in the summary I see:
discs that fail a security check to trigger a notification process, enabling the provider to send the player a sort of "self-destruct code."
So what happens when SonOfNimda alters disk burning software so that any disk produced by the PC will cause its drive or any other blue ray drive to self-destruct on the burned disk's insertion? The drive would probably self-destruct the moment the burn completed. That's if you're lucky. If it lets the disk out into the wild, then it's going to destroy your boss's drive when he goes to make the multi-million dollar contract presentation with a disk you burned for him. Or perhaps, it'll make it into the gold master copy that gets mailed out to millions of subscribers to your magazine. In either case, what separates this from a regular ol' run of the mill worm is that somebody looses a very expensive drive in the process.
I think I'll be sticking with hardware vendors that treat me like the customer that I am rather than the thief that I am not. Thanks to Sony's entertainment division, Blue Ray just became their next mini disk. Nobody is going to buy that crap.
Great, they're using encryption. That's only half their problem. Now, does anyone care to explain how they plan to prevent a shiny new Blue Ray drive from self-destructing due to the following:
DDOS of ssl.sonyupdate.whatever
DNS Cache poisoning of the same
Window's worm of the week screwing with the drive.
Oh, they don't have a plan for that? I see... <sell-SNE/>
P2P is superb stuff, and has all kinds of legit uses,
Glad we can all agree on something.
but to pretend that its not 95% used to download copyrighted music and movies and thus save a few bucks is just denial.
The same argument is made every time a new technology emerges and it turns out to be wrong every time. Cassette tapes, VCRs, hell, the printing press. Every time it is fought tooth and nail until the distributors eventually wake up to the fact that, "Hey! We can make a lot of money here!" See the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) if you need an emerging example. Personally, I hope the clowns suing children go under permanently because they've really shown their asses this time.
There are far too may slashdotters who reply to any article on copyright with "get with the system dude! copyright is over!" usually they seem to be 13 year old kids who dont understand what its like to have your income and career based on developing electronic products.
Most slashdotters defend copyright, since it is the foundation of the GPL. (And since 13 year olds aren't being excluded by the lawsuits, I'd say they have as much right to voice their opinion on slashdot as anyone else.)
Do people really think that Lord of the Rings deserved to sell just 1 copy, to the p2p hacker who ripped it?
Only one copy was purchased? It was without a doubt available on P2P for free. The only way the content distributors lost money was by not making it available as a paid, burnable download that works... like iTMS does with music.
and then, treat that IP like other property: tax it!
you just might get it. According to what I've read, the income tax was supposed to 'soak the rich' but look at it now. If you taxed IP, who do you think has the pull to lobby congress to ensure they pay the least of it? And just like the income tax pretty much obliterated your right to financial privacy, an IP tax would obliterate your right to intellectual privacy. Every written work you create is automatically copyrighted under US law. Now, if the good ol' IRS is going to tax that effectively, they're going to need a copy of every email, blog, diary, picture and video you make. Do you really want that 80 years down the line. Sure, it'll start with the big guys paying all the taxes, just like income tax did. But it won't stay that way. I don't think any of us 'regular folks' want that, but the top 0.1%'er megalomaniacs would love it.
I say just blow up the moon, that little bastard is just slowing us down.
Actually, to speed things up, you'd need to reel it in a bit. As the moon pulls further away from Earth, the Earth's rotation slows. A billion years ago, days were only about 18 hours long.
Since the U.S. doesn't actually manufacture anything tangible anymore
Not true. Ford, GM, and many other manufacturing corporation. What is true is that a large part of the U.S. economy is a service economy and also is based on revenues from Intellectual Property. So for the U.S. there is a real value in ensuring that each copy of a product is purchased.
I guess you missed the bit where your referenced manufacturers were rated junk status on the stock market, eh?
"intellectual property" then becomes all the more important for maintaining control in a capitalistic economy still based on scarcity.
IP revnues are important, because if the U.S. lost major corporations that created IP hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens would be unemployed.
You don't read the paper much, do you?
Capitalism is the best method for allocating scarce resources.
Are not all monopolies harmful?
Being a single seller, by itself, is not good, nor evil -- it depends on how one obtained that single-seller status. Did one obtain a monopoly by economic competition in the marketplace, or did one obtain it by political pull, i.e., lobbying? If such status is gained by competition in the free-market then the "monopoly" -- the successful business -- is good. If such status is gained by using the government, or Mafia, to force one's competition out of business, then the monopoly is evil.
By definition, copyright is a government imposed monopoly. Therefore, if you are a capitalist, copyright is evil.
Think what you will about it, but recieving a free copy of something someone else has invested time and money to produce is not a "right."
The purpose of copyright is not to guarantee the creator a paycheck. It is to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." Think what you will about it, but monopolizing the public domain is not a "right."
All songs are RIAA free as far as I can tell. In short, I've already got the free music. The 'industry' hopes I haven't found it yet, so they'll trot out Shitney Beers or some other jailbait teen with more T&A than talent hoping I'll bite. The special interest groups can go f' themselves as far as I'm concerned. I don't buy, listen, or even want any of their crap, so they'd best keep their grubby hands out of my pockets.
Also, an a Limited-User account, with all the activex security turned up (this is my current WinXP account for day-to-day tasks) the Genuine Advantage Tool fails to run, and requests a) Administrator rights and b) that I set my ActiveX security to Medium/Low. It then accuses me of having failed the test, and of having a counterfeit copy of Windows. So, I predict more security problems as people who have taken sensible security precautions are forced to abandon them for this tool.
Expect additional problems by people who aren't tech savvy. Faced with "You have a pirated copy. To update please send money" they'll probably just not update. Once they know it's pirated and they can't get the update from microsoft's website, they'll just use the update provided by techsupport@micr0s0ft.com via email/usenet... Or maybe they're they're too smart for that and will instead opt to apply the 1337 H4X0R patch over at rootyourbox.net. We already have a +5 informative distributing possibly malicious executables right in this discussion. Being a Mac user, I can't do too much investigating. Are the patches being offered there signed in any verifiable way by Microsoft? Would Joe Sixpack know the difference? We might just see plagues of biblical proportions in the Windows monoculture.
I realized that nobody in their right mind would spend $600.00 on a 3-year old G4 when they could have a mini which is almost twice as fast for the same cost.
That thing can still boot OS 9, right? I'm sure you'll still find demand. Going price on eBay seems to be at about $600.
If you're talking about Windows XP machines, wouldn't the Product Activation prevent that from happening? It's not like you could carry an iPod with a boot-able copy of XP on it since every time you plugged it into a new machine, it would demand reactivation... no?
To all you people that spend your spare time in front of your computer or watching that 60" Hi-Def... I say switch that little bastard off, go kiss your significant other right on the lips, and go out for a nice long walk. In the long run, you'll both be better off without Hollywood running the show.
I don't have an SO you insensitive clod!:-) Seriously though, the computer can be a good way out of **AA homogenous mind-control hell. It's all a matter of how you use it. The tools are so good/cheap/ubiquitous for musicians that amateur/independent music exists to shame anything the RIAA has available. No need for RIAA assistance or studios, just grab a copy of Logic Pro and do your thing. The computer allows me to check the RIAA Radar, to ensure I buy no music from baby-litigators. Finding good free/independent music is easier with collaborative filtering. I like iRate myself, but other collaborative ranking systems are available that make the process of separating wheat from chaff easier. The "music industry" as it was 10 years ago is now useless to me. I'd rather find tunes on iRate and paypal the cash for a CD at the band's website or through CDBaby.
As for video, the process seems to be in it's infancy. Already though, shows are popping up on P2P that were canned by the major networks but attracted a fanbase online. It won't be long before producers decide to release on P2P first and approach networks later.
What if any laws prevent the local Police CyberCrime division from throwing up a net of packet sniffers?
I thought about the same issue myself. Then I remembered Carnivore.
I still haven't seen many arguments on the net for what happens when a city full of grandmas and newbs have 5+Mbps symmetrical connections and unpatched versions of (you name it) and become a bigass DDOS net.
The internet will handle that just fine I'm sure. Ask the folks in Tokyo where 40/12 Mbps was cheap a year ago. American "broadband" sucks. The American cable/telecom monopolies have been dragging their feet intentionally. They can afford to since they have no competition. Just look at what happenedTHE DAY AFTER the Supreme Court guaranteed cable companies continued monopoly status with the Brand X decision.
So to sum up, good for Louisiana. Screw the cable and telecom monopolies.
Under the DMCA it is a felony to (1) circumvent a technical measure such as an encryption lock that copyright owners use to control access to their works or prevent copying of their works, (2) make or distribute a tool that circumvents access controls, or (3) make or distribute a tool that bypasses other technical measures used by copyright owners to protect rights in copyrighted works. 17 USC 1201, 1204.
He used a software circumvention tool to gain access to locked media files for which he does not hold the copyright. We have his confession. This is an open and shut case. Why has he not been pursued by law enforcement? Further, he linked to the program that allowed him to do this. Linking to circumvention devices was ruled illegal in Universal v. Reimerdes. The decision was upheld on appeal. In short, I believe that's two felony counts under the DMCA. He has since removed the link and destroyed the evidence of his crime:
So for now, I'm deleting the files and the program and will inquire of folks who know more about the legal aspects.
I'm not entirely certain of the seriousness of this crime, but, given his actions, he is a serious threat to our 'Intellectual Property' based society. He should be dealt with swiftly, yet this happened almost a month ago. He is still out there roaming the internet! What good are laws if they aren't enforced? As upright citizens of this great nation, we should DEMAND justice. This criminal is loose out there somewhere and needs to be imprisoned before he hurts any other intellectual property holders. Please! Won't someone think of the intellectual property holders!?
The "next big thing" eh? That reminds me of a joke =)
An anatomy professor is quizzing his students one session when he calls on Suzy with question, "Suzy, what part of the body has the ability to expand to six times its normal size and under what conditions?" Suzy indignantly replies, "Professor! How dare you ask me such a thing, and in front of the entire class no less! I assure you my parents will be hearing about this incident, and you will no doubt have to answer to someone for it!" The professors tells her she may sit down and then asks Emily the same question. Emily replies "The iris. In the dark." The professor continues, "That is correct Emily, you may be seated. Suzy, your answer tells me three things. 1) You have not studied your lessons, 2) You have a dirty mind, and 3) You will be very disappointed one day."
It's very simple. If you don't have permission to use someone else's resources, then it's theft of service.
But as you and I have both pointed out, what constitutes 'permission' isn't so simple. There needs to be explicit language in the law defining what is and isn't considered 'authorized' access. Otherwise, we're going to be wasting a lot of time and money in court while the politicians are busy grandstanding about how tough they are on crime. I for one would appreciate a politician who was tougher on ambiguous legislation myself. As this case illustrates, 5 years + $5000 for connecting to a network without a permission slip from Mr. Asshat is tough enough on crime for my tastes. I think it's time to fix the laws that are so ambiguous as to make everyone a criminal instead.
explain to me again why a geek caught with his hand in the cookie jar should be rewarded with a "get out of jail free" card.
Because the geek could have driven over to the Starbucks and done the same thing without penalty had the geek realized the Wi-Fi's owner was an asshat who would call the cops after he willfully left his wi-fi open to the public. If the guy willfully and knowingly leaves his hotspot open to the public, I fail to see how this would qualify as unauthorized access. At least the poor geek wasn't in California, or they'd have his DNA by now.
But I'm not the judge, so it doesn't matter what I or any other slashbot thinks. Under Florida law, the legislators went to great lengths to define all those high tech terms but failed to define what constitutes 'authorized' access. So now it's up to the judge. For background on what judges have found constitutes unauthorized access, have a look here.
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Won't you have product activation problems (I'm assuming WinXP here) if you try to take that keydrive and plug it into a different machine?
If you use a Mac, the best browser for cookie management has to be Omniweb. Here's a screenshot. See the little cookie icon at the bottom of the browser window? When you click it, that sheet with the red/yellow/green dots drops down and lets you accept/deny cookies on an individual basis. Just set the default to 'deny all' and then selectively accept the ones you want as you need them. It's very slick. The last time I used Mozilla I had to dig through the preferences constantly to achieve something similar. Only one other browser that I've used (iCab) has anything close, though I must admit that I've never tried Firefox.
That might not work too well if any of those sites have an ad from doubleclick or some such. I use Omniweb. There's a little cookie icon at the bottom of the window. Not only does it tells me the site domain dropping the cookie, but it also lists the domain the cookie actually belongs to. You can selectively accept/temp/deny each cookie individually. That way, you can set the browser to deny all, then when you find you need a cookie, click the cookie icon and turn it on. If you only want it for one session, use the yellow temporary selection. Most importantly, I can accept cookies from ebay, and deny ones going back to mediaplex even though both cookies are being presented on the same page. It's perfect. Mozilla can do something similar, but the last time I used Moz, I found the interface for doing it a lot less usable.
This is the most insightful comment on the board. Too bad you posted AC and mods won't give you the time of day.
Lots of people are angry about the patent system, so there is a mood to fix it. The trouble is that if it gets fixed the way Microsoft wants, we won't like it very much. Bruce may be right, we should get way more politically active.
Unfortunately, there's a problem with this approach. The American political system is broken too. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had this foolishness in the first place.
I think you misunderstand my point. I'm not talking about a worm sending the drive Sony's self-destruct code. I'm talking about a worm that causes the drive to meet the requirements created by Sony in order to cause Sony to destroy it. Reading the Tom's hardware article linked in the summary I see:
So what happens when SonOfNimda alters disk burning software so that any disk produced by the PC will cause its drive or any other blue ray drive to self-destruct on the burned disk's insertion? The drive would probably self-destruct the moment the burn completed. That's if you're lucky. If it lets the disk out into the wild, then it's going to destroy your boss's drive when he goes to make the multi-million dollar contract presentation with a disk you burned for him. Or perhaps, it'll make it into the gold master copy that gets mailed out to millions of subscribers to your magazine. In either case, what separates this from a regular ol' run of the mill worm is that somebody looses a very expensive drive in the process.
I think I'll be sticking with hardware vendors that treat me like the customer that I am rather than the thief that I am not. Thanks to Sony's entertainment division, Blue Ray just became their next mini disk. Nobody is going to buy that crap.
- DDOS of ssl.sonyupdate.whatever
- DNS Cache poisoning of the same
- Window's worm of the week screwing with the drive.
Oh, they don't have a plan for that? I see... <sell-SNEGlad we can all agree on something.
but to pretend that its not 95% used to download copyrighted music and movies and thus save a few bucks is just denial.
The same argument is made every time a new technology emerges and it turns out to be wrong every time. Cassette tapes, VCRs, hell, the printing press. Every time it is fought tooth and nail until the distributors eventually wake up to the fact that, "Hey! We can make a lot of money here!" See the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) if you need an emerging example. Personally, I hope the clowns suing children go under permanently because they've really shown their asses this time.
There are far too may slashdotters who reply to any article on copyright with "get with the system dude! copyright is over!" usually they seem to be 13 year old kids who dont understand what its like to have your income and career based on developing electronic products.
Most slashdotters defend copyright, since it is the foundation of the GPL. (And since 13 year olds aren't being excluded by the lawsuits, I'd say they have as much right to voice their opinion on slashdot as anyone else.)
Do people really think that Lord of the Rings deserved to sell just 1 copy, to the p2p hacker who ripped it?
Only one copy was purchased? It was without a doubt available on P2P for free. The only way the content distributors lost money was by not making it available as a paid, burnable download that works... like iTMS does with music.
you just might get it. According to what I've read, the income tax was supposed to 'soak the rich' but look at it now. If you taxed IP, who do you think has the pull to lobby congress to ensure they pay the least of it? And just like the income tax pretty much obliterated your right to financial privacy, an IP tax would obliterate your right to intellectual privacy. Every written work you create is automatically copyrighted under US law. Now, if the good ol' IRS is going to tax that effectively, they're going to need a copy of every email, blog, diary, picture and video you make. Do you really want that 80 years down the line. Sure, it'll start with the big guys paying all the taxes, just like income tax did. But it won't stay that way. I don't think any of us 'regular folks' want that, but the top 0.1%'er megalomaniacs would love it.
Actually, to speed things up, you'd need to reel it in a bit. As the moon pulls further away from Earth, the Earth's rotation slows. A billion years ago, days were only about 18 hours long.
Not true. Ford, GM, and many other manufacturing corporation. What is true is that a large part of the U.S. economy is a service economy and also is based on revenues from Intellectual Property. So for the U.S. there is a real value in ensuring that each copy of a product is purchased.
I guess you missed the bit where your referenced manufacturers were rated junk status on the stock market, eh?
IP revnues are important, because if the U.S. lost major corporations that created IP hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens would be unemployed.
You don't read the paper much, do you?
Capitalism is the best method for allocating scarce resources.
Keen on Capitalism?
By definition, copyright is a government imposed monopoly. Therefore, if you are a capitalist, copyright is evil.
The purpose of copyright is not to guarantee the creator a paycheck. It is to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." Think what you will about it, but monopolizing the public domain is not a "right."
Did someone say Free Music?
All songs are RIAA free as far as I can tell. In short, I've already got the free music. The 'industry' hopes I haven't found it yet, so they'll trot out Shitney Beers or some other jailbait teen with more T&A than talent hoping I'll bite. The special interest groups can go f' themselves as far as I'm concerned. I don't buy, listen, or even want any of their crap, so they'd best keep their grubby hands out of my pockets.
Expect additional problems by people who aren't tech savvy. Faced with "You have a pirated copy. To update please send money" they'll probably just not update. Once they know it's pirated and they can't get the update from microsoft's website, they'll just use the update provided by techsupport@micr0s0ft.com via email/usenet... Or maybe they're they're too smart for that and will instead opt to apply the 1337 H4X0R patch over at rootyourbox.net. We already have a +5 informative distributing possibly malicious executables right in this discussion. Being a Mac user, I can't do too much investigating. Are the patches being offered there signed in any verifiable way by Microsoft? Would Joe Sixpack know the difference? We might just see plagues of biblical proportions in the Windows monoculture.
That thing can still boot OS 9, right? I'm sure you'll still find demand. Going price on eBay seems to be at about $600.
It was.
If you aren't happy with blue or red, why vote for either?
If you're talking about Windows XP machines, wouldn't the Product Activation prevent that from happening? It's not like you could carry an iPod with a boot-able copy of XP on it since every time you plugged it into a new machine, it would demand reactivation... no?
I don't have an SO you insensitive clod! :-) Seriously though, the computer can be a good way out of **AA homogenous mind-control hell. It's all a matter of how you use it. The tools are so good/cheap/ubiquitous for musicians that amateur/independent music exists to shame anything the RIAA has available. No need for RIAA assistance or studios, just grab a copy of Logic Pro and do your thing. The computer allows me to check the RIAA Radar, to ensure I buy no music from baby-litigators. Finding good free/independent music is easier with collaborative filtering. I like iRate myself, but other collaborative ranking systems are available that make the process of separating wheat from chaff easier. The "music industry" as it was 10 years ago is now useless to me. I'd rather find tunes on iRate and paypal the cash for a CD at the band's website or through CDBaby.
As for video, the process seems to be in it's infancy. Already though, shows are popping up on P2P that were canned by the major networks but attracted a fanbase online. It won't be long before producers decide to release on P2P first and approach networks later.
I thought about the same issue myself. Then I remembered Carnivore.
I still haven't seen many arguments on the net for what happens when a city full of grandmas and newbs have 5+Mbps symmetrical connections and unpatched versions of (you name it) and become a bigass DDOS net.
The internet will handle that just fine I'm sure. Ask the folks in Tokyo where 40/12 Mbps was cheap a year ago. American "broadband" sucks. The American cable/telecom monopolies have been dragging their feet intentionally. They can afford to since they have no competition. Just look at what happened THE DAY AFTER the Supreme Court guaranteed cable companies continued monopoly status with the Brand X decision.
So to sum up, good for Louisiana. Screw the cable and telecom monopolies.
Yes, he did. Have a look:
He used a software circumvention tool to gain access to locked media files for which he does not hold the copyright. We have his confession. This is an open and shut case. Why has he not been pursued by law enforcement? Further, he linked to the program that allowed him to do this. Linking to circumvention devices was ruled illegal in Universal v. Reimerdes. The decision was upheld on appeal. In short, I believe that's two felony counts under the DMCA. He has since removed the link and destroyed the evidence of his crime:
I'm not entirely certain of the seriousness of this crime, but, given his actions, he is a serious threat to our 'Intellectual Property' based society. He should be dealt with swiftly, yet this happened almost a month ago. He is still out there roaming the internet! What good are laws if they aren't enforced? As upright citizens of this great nation, we should DEMAND justice. This criminal is loose out there somewhere and needs to be imprisoned before he hurts any other intellectual property holders. Please! Won't someone think of the intellectual property holders!?
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The "next big thing" eh? That reminds me of a joke =)
An anatomy professor is quizzing his students one session when he calls on Suzy with question, "Suzy, what part of the body has the ability to expand to six times its normal size and under what conditions?" Suzy indignantly replies, "Professor! How dare you ask me such a thing, and in front of the entire class no less! I assure you my parents will be hearing about this incident, and you will no doubt have to answer to someone for it!" The professors tells her she may sit down and then asks Emily the same question. Emily replies "The iris. In the dark." The professor continues, "That is correct Emily, you may be seated. Suzy, your answer tells me three things. 1) You have not studied your lessons, 2) You have a dirty mind, and 3) You will be very disappointed one day."
;-)
But as you and I have both pointed out, what constitutes 'permission' isn't so simple. There needs to be explicit language in the law defining what is and isn't considered 'authorized' access. Otherwise, we're going to be wasting a lot of time and money in court while the politicians are busy grandstanding about how tough they are on crime. I for one would appreciate a politician who was tougher on ambiguous legislation myself. As this case illustrates, 5 years + $5000 for connecting to a network without a permission slip from Mr. Asshat is tough enough on crime for my tastes. I think it's time to fix the laws that are so ambiguous as to make everyone a criminal instead.
Because the geek could have driven over to the Starbucks and done the same thing without penalty had the geek realized the Wi-Fi's owner was an asshat who would call the cops after he willfully left his wi-fi open to the public. If the guy willfully and knowingly leaves his hotspot open to the public, I fail to see how this would qualify as unauthorized access. At least the poor geek wasn't in California, or they'd have his DNA by now.
But I'm not the judge, so it doesn't matter what I or any other slashbot thinks. Under Florida law, the legislators went to great lengths to define all those high tech terms but failed to define what constitutes 'authorized' access. So now it's up to the judge. For background on what judges have found constitutes unauthorized access, have a look here.