I, like the author of this article, am not a lawyer (it seems one of the responsibilities of a journalist is to ask a lawyer for their opinion on this sort of

I, like the author of this article, am not a lawyer (it seems one of the responsibilities of a journalist is to ask a lawyer for their opinion on this sort of thing when writing an article about it though), but: > But if Jones did happen to send an email to a giant mailing list she used to be part of, one listed on the open web, would that be much of a crime? Aren't US computer crime laws painfully stupid and written in such a way that it would be? The analogy being "just because a person's door is unlocked doesn't mean you have the right to enter", that sort of thing? Doesn't make the raid any less scummy, of course.