Courts have never been shy about insanely broad interpretations of the CFAA. Without expensive legal representation (of the sort that News Corp can afford after it hacks the phones of dead soldiers, terrorist attacks victims, and obstructing a pedophilia murder investigation for a scoop), you can get locked up or driven to suicide to further a sociopathic prosecutor’s career even if you do nothing actually illegal. As such, I wouldn’t count on the courts excluding pager networks from the CFAA.
Self-evidently as this artwork demonstrates. Making useful sense of the data however would take a large team of people drudging through it and trying to put the mother of all puzzles back together with no promise it will contain anything valuable. Databases are only useful because they’re indexed and organized.
