Many will breathe a sigh of relief following Judge Alex Kozinski’s new opinion for an en banc Ninth Circuit in United States v. Nosal, establishing that (contrary to some fears) the “anti-hacking” provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act do not penalize broad swaths of computer usage that exceed “authorized” use. A ruling the other way might have criminalized many instances of employee goofing-off as well as common user violations of website terms-of-service. [Orin Kerr, Volokh Conspiracy, Ken at Popehat] Earlier here, here, here, etc.
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I think the Googleplus button is broken. When I press it, I get a “Liked” dialogue to my GooglePlus account that has the home URL in it, not the article’s.
To update, when pressing the GooglePlus button on an article on the main page, the button gives me a URL of the home site. When pressing it after clicking on the article itself, I get the URL for the article.