The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is littered with loopholes and nuances that can be leveraged by a prosecutor in a criminal case, or turned against a white hat in civil litigation. The CFAA can be dangerous in the hands of an overzealous prosecutor. An attorney and fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation will be speaking next week at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas on the topic. She hopes the talk will increase awareness of how subtleties in the law apply to researchers.
Source: https://threatpost.com/cfaa-loopholes-and-gotchas-discussed-at-black-hat/101458/