Is the right too broad?

The question that will concern us is whether the liability 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) is too broad.

But before we turn to that, we have one preliminary.

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) creates criminal and civil liability for whoever (a) “intentionally accesses a computer (b) without authorization . . , and (c) thereby obtains ... information from any protected computer.”

What is a protected computer?

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