Orrin Hatch: “Under this provision, you do not have a right to hack into another private computer, whether you are a university…”

“Under this provision, you do not have a right to hack into another private computer, whether you are a university student or anybody else. It only applies, the law we have written, to unauthorized access. It does not apply to authorized access. But unauthorized access, yes, it applies to that. If we don't put it in there, we will be leaving a glaring error that currently exists in our laws that prohibit us from solving some of these problems. It would be a terrible thing to not correct at this particular time, knowing what we know about how these terrorists are operating right now.”