The FBI disagrees with your interpretation: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/docs/ccmanual.pdf http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/docs/ccmanu

The FBI disagrees with your interpretation: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/docs/ccmanual.pdf http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/docs/ccmanual.pdf (I was going to quote some parts of this, but there are too many... giant wall of text.) Edit: This is also useful: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-1025.pdf http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-1025.pdf And I'll quote this part (which is from a case cited in the footnotes): A computer that accesses the Internet is a computer used in interstate or foreign commerce. So there's your answer