when IT administrator Michael Thomas deleted a collection of files before
leaving his job at the auto dealership software firm ClickMotive in 2011,
the 37-year-old Texan wasn’t merely charged with destruction of property or
sued by his ex-employer for damages. Instead, he’s been charged with a
felony count of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, (CFAA) a law
passed in 1986 to prevent and prosecute malicious hacking. The charges
could carry up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in penalties—and have
already led to the seizure of Thomas’s proceeds from the sale of his house.
And as Thomas’s trial begins today in the Eastern District of Texas, his
defense attorneys and some legal observers argue that his case represents
yet another new form of prosecutorial overreach based on the CFAA’s
long-controversial and overbroad measures.


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