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Strictly speaking, plenty of people have been successfully prosecuted for accessing networks and systems that they were not authorized to access.

• o1y32 3y ago
  I am not a lawyer but I am pretty sure a website protected with a password and/or firewall means something different from a robots.txt that is nothing more than a convention.
  • jtriangle 3y ago
    As far as what's been prosecuted, yes, but, the law is very...well, flexible, unfortunately.
  • fluidcruft 3y ago
    Seems like the difference between a fence that has a locked gate vs a fence that merely has a "no trespassing" sign?