At 03:33 PM 8/19/2008 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/federal-judge-t.html
MBTA's claim was based on CFAA, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Properly, the judge decided (in effect) that CFAA only applies to messing with computers (a legal term of fanciful art), not to speaking about software that might mess with computers.
The more interesting question, which has not been addressed, is whether the CFAA definition of "computer" is so broad that it would include the CharlieCard and/or CharlieTicket. The Complaint alleges specifically that both are computers.
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