It's the mark of a talentless publication to piggyback on real reporters' work, and is especially distasteful for this topic, of which a site with the word "tech" in it should have their own angle on already.
Actually its the mark of talentless publication to piggyback on a very real tragedy with a senseless link-baitey story that they could have answered for themselves in a completely non-conspiratorial way if they noted that every case involving CFAA is investigated by and/or handled by the Secret Service.
Didn't stop emptywheel though, nor Techdirt. They got what ever the paranoid equivalent of rage views is.
Go to the original, Techdirt adds nothing:
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/01/13/two-days-before-cambrid...