They were charged with conspiracy and intentional damage to protected computers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The information programmed in a computer is intentional in that one could determine the intentions of the human programmer by analyzing the algorithm.
Cooperative learning and computer supported intentional learning environments have strong roots in the cognitive field psychology of Kurt Lewin.
For the attack against the county's website, Doyon and Covelli were charged with conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer, causing intentional damage to a protected computer, and aiding and abetting, authorities said.
Weber claims that intentional states associated with computers are actually states of the human engineers who write the programs, not states of the computers themselves: "A computer program is a string of symbols that acquires a meaning only in the context of a community of engineers who understand what the program does and what it can be used for" (Weber 2005, p. 252).
The paper notes the vulnerability of different types of computer networks to "intentional" attacks.
The defendants are all being charged with several counts of conspiracy and intentional damage to a protected computer.
On September 22, 2011, in a coffee shop in Mountain View, California, Doyon was arrested and charged with causing intentional damage to a protected computer.
Such a method of combining the operation of a computer with the intentional injection of random data is called the "Monte-Carlo method" of calculation and in certain instances (such as in the numerical integration of functions in many dimensions) has been found to be more efficient in arriving at correct answers than the purely deterministic methods.
"When you have a decentralized group," Ms. Granick said, "the question is, Are there big fish, and are any of these people big fish?" The charge of "intentional damage to a protected computer" is punishable by a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, while conspiracy carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
