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In article <1991Jun10.052806.4214@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
>adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) writes:
>
>
>>IMHO, unless a "guest" account user is notified somehow (eg.
>>/etc/motd) that "this account is _only_ for use by faculty in Uni. of
>>X", you don't have a case against anyone outside the U. using the same
>>account, since the scope of "legal use" was not made known to him/her.
>
>No. The law is exactly the opposite. Unless *you* know that the account
>is for general access, you do not have the right to use it. There are
>legitmate reasons for having a "guest" account (with no password) on a 
>system. But just as with an unlocked door, *you* are not the person
>it was left unlocked for.

I don't suppose you can quote the law?  (For computers, not for illegaly
entry of a residence.  BTW, it isn't illegal to enter an unlocked commercial
office building....)  Is it the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 198x (the
one Morris was convicted on?)
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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