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Hello students, here the case was united states michael kalki 2010 wl -ddos main points in this case is, in 2000, michael kalki, a 15 -year -old high school student from florida, launched a series of denial -of -services, ddos, so attack against several high -profile websites including yahoo, cnn, ebay.
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The attack caused significant disruptions to those websites and kalki was eventually arrested and charged with violating the computer fraud and abuse act, cfaa.
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Because this was not a good thing that he was violating everything including these main websites.
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So, law cited the cfaa 18 uac 1030, a federal law that prohibits unauthorized access to the protected computer.
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This law was originally passed in 1986 but it has been amended several times since then to address new forms of cybercrime.
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While the law was applied, the government argued that kalki violated the cfaa by accessing the website without authorization and by causing damage to them.
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The government also argued that kalki's actions were not protected by the hacktivism, so exceptions to the cfaa which provides immunity for certain types of computer intrusion that are intended to protect certain government or corporate wrongdoings.
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So, kalki was found guilty of violating cfaa and sentenced to 8 months in prison...