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What: International Airport Centers sues former employee, claiming use of a secure file deletion utility violated federal hacking laws.
When: Decided March 8 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
Outcome: Federal hacking law applies, the court said in a 3-0 opinion written by Judge Richard Posner.
Normally that would have been a routine business dispute. But the twist came when Citrin dutifully returned his work laptop–and IAC tried to undelete files on it to prove he did something wrong.
IAC couldn’t. It turned out that (again according to IAC) Citrin had used a "secure delete" program to make sure that the files were not just deleted, but overwritten and unrecoverable.
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