Look before you click — or you could go to jail for committing a federal crime. That is the lesson of United States v. Lori Drew, 08-CR-582 (C.D. Cal. 2008).
In November 2008, a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted Lori Drew, a 49-year-old mother from Missouri, of three misdemeanor violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That statute traditionally has been used to prosecute computer hacking.[FOOTNOTE 1]
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