Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr...
by judge2020 on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:55PM
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This is more to the likes of your friend inviting you over but telling you to not open a certain door in their house. It's not illegal to then open that door, but it would be to break or pick the door's lock and then open it.
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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr...
by lopmotr on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:44PM
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It's worse than that. It's the friend saying "open any unlocked doors you want", then after you do it, he remembers he left some secret things in his unlocked bedroom and wants you arrested because he didn't know the lock was broken.
Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr...
by harryh on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:09PM
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You are wrong about the law here.
It might be hard to prosecute, but just because I invite you over to my house I have absolutely not granted you permission to enter any room you want.
If you, for example, went into my office and started rifling through my file cabinet that would be a huge invasion of my privacy despite the fact that I (like many people) do not have a physical lock on my office or filing cabinet.