[treis]

It's not immediately clear which laws. The whole point of the CFAA was that existing trespass & theft laws don't really work for digital files.

[JumpCrisscross]

> not immediately clear which laws

Yes it is, theft of trade secrets [1].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dow-research-scientist...

[pbhjpbhj]

Espionage is illegal.