Mackenzie's analysis here is very good and worth reading. I get the sense that a lot of people have discovered the CFAA for the first time recently and gotten a little too excited about it. The Stoller tweet that Mackenzie quotes is a good example of that. The CFAA is, quite famously, the most ridiculously overbroad law in the U.S. Code., the "worst law in technology." It basically criminalizes "doing anything bad with a computer." That's not much of an exaggeration. This is the case because…