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On what grounds would it be illegal though? Things don't become illegal just because you don't like them. They may become illegal just because the president doesn't like them, but I don't think you're him, and in the absence of that, there has to be a majority of Congress and most of them want a reason.


Because they don't have the informed consent* of the owner of the device wich ends up running the code?

* no, small print in a click-through agreement doesn't count.


It's not illegal to run code on a device without informed consent to everything the code does. The CFAA may be excessively broad but it isn't that broad.


I think they do actually. It's pretty clear from the consent screen that they're doing what they're doing.


ask any of the people who installed it if they understand what they're doing and especially what the consequences of that are. i doubt you could get a dozen people who do of the millions and millions who installed it.




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