Respectfully, I suggest you spend a bit more time actually making sure you're responding to what people have actually said and not just what you think they're getting at.

> You are still condoning unauthorized computer access.

Not at all, literally the opposite. You need only to read past one sentence in my post to see: "Yes of course they're both wrong"

> You can enter a building without breaking a door or a window, not sure where you got the notion that is not possible.

Not once did I say it wasn't possible. I was using that as an example: "If you break a door or window to gain access, that's real damage." If. As in, it's not required to do this, but this is an example of "real damage."

> Similarly, if you SSH into a server, the company handling the security gets its reputation tarnished.

If you tell people, yes. And that constitutes real damage. If you SSH into a server to prove to yourself you can do it, and then log out, you have still committed a crime but you have not committed any real damage.

There are absolutely people in this thread making the arguments that you're responding to. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them.