I don't think the US court system agrees, which is what I'm asking about here.
In fact, it seems straightforward to make a case against the student's activities. From the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act:
(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains—
...
(C) information from any protected computer;
The phone numbers are probably information from a protected computer.
Young people are pretty often cavalier about jeopardizing their futures. I'm just checking whether there is, in fact, a chance that this young person could have.
Protected computers: In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the inter-state nature of most internet communication. (See the case history, below).
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I don't think the US court system agrees, which is what I'm asking about here.
In fact, it seems straightforward to make a case against the student's activities. From the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act:
(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains—
...
(C) information from any protected computer;
The phone numbers are probably information from a protected computer.
Young people are pretty often cavalier about jeopardizing their futures. I'm just checking whether there is, in fact, a chance that this young person could have.
The computer was obviously not protected.
Protected computers: In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the inter-state nature of most internet communication. (See the case history, below).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act