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>despite that being a logical next step to this ruling

No. No it isn't. This ruling does not state that hacking is legal, it says that it isn't a 4th Amendment violation.

As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016508

>Someone not having a reasonable expectation of privacy in a thing does not mean it is legal to hack their computer.

And there's an explicit legal exemption of hacking for law enforcement in the CFAA.



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