ACK! -- CONTINUED

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Dustin Decker <dustind at moon-lite.com>: 
 
> I'm pasting the relevant statute for the state of Kansas here... 
 
Note the emphasis on doing real damge, particularly to financial transactions 
or posessions, as opposed to mere access (a misdemeanor), or 
modifying/altering without using such changes to do damage. 
 
In an atmosphere where the brown shirts are clamoring for any "computer crime" 
to be prosecuted as terrorism, a judge might be influenced to follow the 
letter of the law in this case, taking the alteration as a felony and the 
'trespass' as a misdemeanor, but in more reasoned conditions you would be hard 
pressed to get a prosecution, again given that no real harm was done, no loss 
except of configuration time was incurred. 
 
So ya see, yes it's against the law.  A crime, strictly speaking. 
 
But except to the person who feels the violation most personally, who has had 
his dilligence and expertise flaunted publicly and is burning over it, it's no 
big deal. 

---------------------------------------------------
This mail sent through tarcanfel's horde/imp system