Duty LXD-0252
Crawls the web, in Wyoming
Crimes against computer users (bare without-authorization test)since 3 lines
Wyo. Stat. Ann. ยง 6-3-504 · Read the law's page
- Do not access a Wyoming-connected computer, computer system, or computer network without authorization; this statute has no malicious-intent or deceptive-means gate, so a bare unauthorized access can fit its elements even without resulting damage or disruption.
- No Wyoming court has decided whether accessing an unauthenticated, public web page counts as access without authorization under this statute for a scraping fact pattern; treat that question as unsettled rather than resolved by analogy to a narrower peer-state statute.
- A violation committed with the intent to devise or execute a scheme or artifice to defraud or to obtain property carries a substantially higher penalty, up to ten years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine, than an ordinary violation, up to three years and a $3,000 fine.