Computer Crimes Act of 1988. Unauthorized use of a computer system (or network) is a 3rd degree felony. The system can be left wide open (with no protection at all) and it's still no excuse.

Just a reminder to those who hack in Florida.


[link|http://www.clas.ufl.edu/docs/flcrimes/subsubsection2_1_1_2_6.html#SECTION0011260000000000000|http://www.clas.ufl....11260000000000000]

Fla. Stat. 815.06 Offenses against Computer Users

1. Whoever willfully, knowingly, and without authorization accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, or computer network; or whoever willfully, knowingly, and without authorization denies or causes the denial of computer system services to an authorized user of such computer system services, which, in whole or part, is owned by, under contract to, or operated for, on behalf of, or in conjunction with another commits an offense against computer users.

2.
1. Except as provided in this subsection an offense against computer users is a felony of the third degree, punish- able as provided in S.775.082, S.775.083, or S.775.084.
2. If the offense is committed for the purposes of devising or executing any scheme or artifice to defraud or to obtain any property, then the offender is guilty of a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in S.775.082, S.775.083, or S.775.084.

on edit: I thought it was 1987, it was 1988.