Disgruntled employees, beware. Erasing files on your workplace computer when you part ways with your employer could expose you to expensive civil liability under an anti-hacker law. In one of very few appellate interpretations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that permanently erasing files from an individual laptop might violate federal law. One attorney predicts the anti-hacking law will be the "RICO of the 21st century."
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