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California, New York and a few other states have laws against "unauthorized use of a computer".

342.1. [1] Every one who, fraudulently and without colour of right, [a] obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service, [b] by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system, or [c] uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph [a] or [b] or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. [2] In this section, "computer program" means data representing instructions or statements that, when executed in a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a function; "computer service" includes data processing and the storage or retrieval of data; "computer system" means a device that, or a group of interconnected or related devices one or more of which, [a] contains computer programs or other data, and [b] pursuant to computer programs, [i] performs logic and control, and [ii] may perform any other function; "data" means representations of information or of concepts that are being prepared or have been prepared in a form suitable for use in a computer system; "electro-magnetic, acoustic, or other device" means any device or apparatus that is used or is capable of being used to intercept any function of a computer system, but does not include a hearing aid used to correct subnormal hearing of the user to not better than normal hearing; "function" includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval and communications or telecommunications to, from or within a computer system; "intercept" includes listen to or record a function of a computer system, or acquire the substance, meaning or purport thereof. [R.S.C. 1985, C.27 [1st Supp.], s.45.] This section makes it a hybrid offence for a person fraudulently or without colour of right to obtain, directly or indirectly, any computer service, or to intercept or cause to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer service by means of any device. It further states that it is an offence to use or cause to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit either of the offences described above or an offence under s.430. Subsection [2] contains an extensive set of definitions of terms relevant to this offence. The maximum term of imprisonment upon conviction for the indictable offence described in this section is ten years.

342.1 UNAUTHORIZED USE OF COMPUTER