<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is "Hacking"<br />| from the if-you-send-it-more-than-twice-your-hacking-it dept.<br />| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 10, @15:02 (The Courts)<br />| with 253 comments<br />| <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An anonymous reader writes "An appeals court has ruled that having people<br />send a company a lot of emails (in this case, a union protesting a<br />company's business practices) [0]qualifies as hacking under the Computer<br />Fraud &amp; Abuse Act. We're not even talking about a true DDoS action here,<br />but just a bunch of protest emails. Part of the problem is that the<br />company apparently set up their email to only hold a small number of<br />emails in their inbox, and the court seems to think the union should take<br />the blame for stuffing those inboxes."<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/182224/Court-Rules-Sending-Too-Many-Emails-Is-Hacking?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000013/!x-usc:http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03492415447/court-says-sending-too-many-emails-to-someone-is-computer-hacking.shtml"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110809/03492415447/court-says-sending-too-many-emails-to-someone-is-computer-hacking.shtml</span></span></a><br /><br /></p>