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Right. Lets say you live in a cookie cutter apartment complex. You go to door 22 instead of 23, and because the landlord uses cheap locks, you are able to get i
by kortex 5y ago
Right. Lets say you live in a cookie cutter apartment complex. You go to door 22 instead of 23, and because the landlord uses cheap locks, you are able to get in with your key and a bit of jiggling. You make it as far as the kitchen table with a very surprised family before you realize it's not your apartment. Not BnE.
The CFAA uses "intent" and "defraud" quite a few times. That's not gonna stop some DA from trying to throw it at you, and your life is gonna suck, but state of mind is going to be the most important factor. The disclosure shows you weren't in it to defraud. Obligatory IANAL.
- tptacek 5y agoThe whole reason CFAA got passed in the first place was that Congress was concerned about crimes involving computers that weren't fraud, and thus weren't chargeable under wire fraud statutes. "Fraud" isn't the threshold act of a CFAA case; unauthorized access is.