#43 The Law That Sticks
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🗓️ 26 October 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Alex Goldman. |
| 0:07.0 | Alright Alex, let's get you up and running one more week. |
| 0:17.0 | What are we talking about today? |
| 0:18.3 | We are talking about a law. |
| 0:19.9 | It's called the Computer Fraud Abuse Act or the CFA. |
| 0:23.7 | And you should care about it because it makes things that people are doing online all the |
| 0:27.8 | time illegal. |
| 0:29.5 | In this law, it's been in the news lately because of the strange case of this guy named |
| 0:33.7 | Matthew Keys. |
| 0:35.2 | 26 year old Matthew Keys was formally employed by Tribune owned KTXL Fox 40. |
| 0:40.2 | Next year with an attack on a Tribune company website that was carried out by the group |
| 0:43.9 | anonymous. |
| 0:44.9 | 3 weeks ago, Keys was convicted of hacking on three counts, including something called transmission |
| 0:51.8 | of malicious code. |
| 0:53.6 | Transmission of malicious code. |
| 0:55.6 | It sounds really sinister, right? |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, it sounds really sinister. |
| 0:59.5 | And now he's facing a bunch of years in jail. |
| 1:02.3 | So a little background on the guy. |
| 1:04.3 | Matthew Keys is a reporter. |
| 1:06.0 | He covers breaking news stories using social media. |
| 1:09.0 | And back in 2010, his day job was as a web producer at Fox 40, which is a television station |
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