>So being a public place means that laws do not apply ? I mean it was not someone private computer lost in a public place, it was a computer placed in a public

>So being a public place means that laws do not apply ? I mean it was not someone private computer lost in a public place, it was a computer placed in a public place for people to use it to do whatever , the author says there was no TOS and he did not "hack" the device with some infected USB stick. It might be illegal but I don't think is so trivial to prove. So what should we learn from this ? 1 users can do shit you might not like with your public computer, maybe he can open a porn page, or put some port image as wallpaper, or install an app , so put a comptent person to lock down the devices as much as possible and reset them often to factory settins. 2 think 10 times before upsetting a giant, they have the serif,FBI,CIA,NSA in their quick dial , you might have trouble.