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CFAA victims

In case some redditors don't know what the CFAA is -it stands for the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act". Aaron Swartz was being prosecuted for several violations of this Act when he tragically took his life. The CFAA is seen by many as overly broad, and cases have been raised as a result of email and phone calling campaigns.

In a Bloomberg article, last month titled SEC Goldman Lawyer Says Agency Too Timid on Wall Street Misdeeds a retiring lawyer said just that:

Kidney said his superiors were more focused on getting high-paying jobs after their government service than on bringing difficult cases. The agency’s penalties, Kidney said, have become “at most a tollbooth on the bankster turnpike.” (emphasis mine)

I don't have a question, but I wanted to give you mad props because without a doubt, Chem E was considered the most difficult engineering discipline at the more modest school I went to. Interestingly, one of the tenured Chemical Engineer professors, who received her PHD from Princeton, had a grading methodology that revolved around "would I want this person working in a power facility in the vicinity where I lived."; she had semesters where not a single "A" was given.

I think its great you are encouraging women to become involved in engineering. I was a bit jealous of the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) group where tenured professors would help students succeed by laborious hands on tutoring, but if you are a women interested in science or engineering there is likely a nice support structure that hopefully mitigates the current gender ratios.