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    Wow, have I been busy. I just wanted to comment on the Megan Meier cyberbullying case.

If you haven’t wikipedia’d it already, you would know that the feds are applying an anti-hacking law to the case and charging Lori Drew with one count of conspiracy and three counts of inflicting emotional distress etc. etc. etc. Long and short: She used a false identity to access Megan’s computer and impersonated someone in order to do harm.

Some say this is an improper use of the statute (see digg comments) which is meant to target those who try to break into corporations etc., while using a false identity but I see no reason why you shouldn’t give it a go. She did it with intent to cause harm, not to impress a member of the opposite sex by sending a false photo over the net, not to make herself sound older or younger then she was, she did it to hurt someone - and hurt someone she did.