Lawrence Lessig: Great Lawyers

Lawrence Lessig, who just recently came back to blogging after the birth of his child, has this story on his site this morning.

So imagine this: An employee works for a software company. He discovers a problem with the software, tries to warn the company, but it does nothing. He quits, and then sends email to all the customers of the company, informing them of the security problem with the software. The flood of emails brings the email server down for a bit, but that admittedly does not cause significant damage. Nonetheless, the employee is criminally prosecuted for causing an %u201Cimpairment to the integrity%u201D of a computer system (by revealing its flaws) which resulted in more than $5,000 in damage (because now it was known to be flawed).

Click the link, for the rest of the story. It came out well.