It’s Not the Computer, Stupid. It’s the Information in It. Two Recent Indictments Stretch the Limits of “Theft” of Information.

This article is a legal-policy analysis arguing that modern “computer crime” concerns information use rather than theft of tangible property, using recent indictments (Van Dyke and SPLC) and Supreme Court precedent to show the doctrinal mismatch and risks of overbroad property-based theories criminalizing ordinary misuse of information.