Federal prosecutors have built a hacking case against a Las
Vegas man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor
glitch in a video poker machine, Wired reports.   At the center
of the hacking case is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA),
a 1984 law used to prosecute Aaron Swartz that critics say is
way too broad.  The CFAA — which was originally passed to
protect national security — punishes people who "exceed
authorized access" to computers.  A lawyer for John Kane, the
Vegas local who's being prosecuted under the law, says that he
didn't violate the CFAA even though he did exploit a bug in a
machine known as Game King.  That lawyer, Andrew Leavitt, told
Wired that Kane and a friend of his were playing by the rules
imposed by the machine, and that's all that matters.  "All these
guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were
legally entitled to push,” Leavitt said.  Here's how that
sequence worked, according to a motion Leavitt filed to dismiss
the case:  If an individual is play