>but if they [left a key] outside the door and you use it to enter without permission that would be [breaking in]. //
Why is trespass itself not harm in the first case but is harmful in the second? [Incidentally if you use a key you don't 'break in'].
As the law stands in UK I gather the first is a tort (unless you add in damage or intimidation or something else) and the second is a crime (under the Computer Misuse Act 1990).
They are similar. On discovering both there is a real cost involved, change password/lock and in the first case pay for the time needed to sanitise, revert any changes.
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>but if they [left a key] outside the door and you use it to enter without permission that would be [breaking in]. //
Why is trespass itself not harm in the first case but is harmful in the second? [Incidentally if you use a key you don't 'break in'].
As the law stands in UK I gather the first is a tort (unless you add in damage or intimidation or something else) and the second is a crime (under the Computer Misuse Act 1990).
They are similar. On discovering both there is a real cost involved, change password/lock and in the first case pay for the time needed to sanitise, revert any changes.