Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Title 18 prohibits intercepting any communication, regardless of how it was transmitted.
United States cybersecurity legislation known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) was passed in 1986 as an addendum to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984's provisions on computer fraud. Accessing a computer without authority or in excess of that authorization is against the law. Computer crimes were previously tried as mail and wire fraud, although the applicable statute was frequently insufficient until there were computer-specific criminal laws.
Concerned that crimes involving computers would go unpunished, the initial bill from 1984 was passed. The 1983 techno-thriller WarGames, in which a young Seattle teen breaks into a U.S. military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war and unwittingly almost starts World War III, was referred to in the House Committee Report to the original computer crime bill as "a realistic representation of the automatic dialling and access capabilities of the personal computer."
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