You think walking through an unlocked door should result in federal charges?

Walking through an unlocked door that has a sign "private property, do not enter", searching for sensitive information, finding it and exposing it surely could.

Or not, depending on how the party who owns what's inside that door feels. But if it feels he should be prosecuted, then hell yes, the state should do that. My 2c.

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Ekaros 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So what about using rakes or bump keys? Very low tech, very easy. Can defeat some poor quality locks.

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petcat 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So now the door is unlocked?? Where are the goal posts?

Don't mess with people's stuff if they don't want you to. This seems very simple to me. But I'm aware that you're trying to find some fringy gray area where you think it will be OK to mess with people's stuff even though they don't want you to.

	▲	Dylan16807 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If we're making an analogy to the Weev case then yes the door was unlocked, with the explicit intent that the general public could come through that door and access some of the documents.