110 STAT. 3492 PUBLIC LAW 104-294—OCT. 11, 1996 deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it"; (B) in paragraph (2)— (i) by striking "obtains information" and inserting "obtains— "(A) information"; and (ii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs: "(B) information from any department or agency of the United States; or "(C) information from any protected computer if the conduct involved an interstate or foreign communication;"; (C) in paragraph (3)— (i) by inserting "nonpublic" before "computer of a department or agency"; (ii) by striking "adversely"; and (iii) by striking "the use of the Government's operation of such computer" and inserting "that use by or for the Government of the United States"; (D) in paragraph (4)— (i) by striking "Federal interest" and inserting "protected"; and (ii) by inserting before the semicolon the following: "and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period"; (E) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following: "(5)(A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer; "(B) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or "(C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage;"; and (F) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following new paragraph: "(7) with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, educational institution, financial institution, government entity, or other legal entity, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce siny communication containing any threat to cause damage to a protected computer;"; (2) in subsection (c)— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking "such subsection" each place that term appears and inserting "this section"; (B) in paragraph (2)— (i) in subparagraph (A)— (I) by inserting ", (a)(5)(C)," after "(a)(3)"; and (II) by striking "such subsection" and inserting "this section"; (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); (iii) by inserting immediately after subparagraph (A) the following:
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