Lawyer is the First Guy Computer Hackers Call When the FBI Shows Up
Six years ago, former Manhattan lawyer Tor Ekeland traded in his fat paycheck for a not-so-lucrative private practice as one of a handful of defense lawyers who specialize in computer crimes.
Mother Jones profiles the 48-year-old, who says his boring corporate job for leading to alcoholism.
Reporter A.J. Vicens writes that Ekeland has strong feelings about the perceived nefarious intent of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Hackers “scare people. They make them feel vulnerable; there’s a hysteria about it.”
Ekeland has defended hackers against charges ranging from probing the defenses of municipal websites to conspiring to access federal email accounts.
Read the Mother Jones article.
