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Criminal mischief in the fourth degree, unauthorized computer access

Alaska Stat. Sec. 11.46.484(a)(3)

In force.

A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Access restriction
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not knowingly access a computer, computer system, program, or network without a right, or a reasonable belief of a right, to do so, even where the access causes no further harm.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
NIST AI 600-1
OWASP LLM Top 10
OWASP Agentic Top 10
  • ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 2.1Model & Infrastructure Security
  • 3.2Data Governance
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.

Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law

Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Criminal mischief in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor under AS 11.46.484(b). It is chargeable for unauthorized computer access alone, with no further harmful act required, making it a lower-tier alternative to criminal use of a computer.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Alaska Stat. 11.46.484(a)(3) makes it criminal mischief in the fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor, to knowingly access a computer, computer system, program or network without a right to do so. The paragraph imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and it names no territorial hook.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

Drafted with AI

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Research summary

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A person commits criminal mischief in the fourth degree if, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe the person has such a right, the person knowingly accesses a computer, computer system, computer program, computer network, or part of a computer system or network.

Unlike criminal use of a computer under AS 11.46.740, this offense requires no further act after the unauthorized access itself and no showing that the person obtained, damaged, or tampered with anything once inside. Criminal mischief in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.

The codified text's history note traces the section to a 1978 enactment, ch. 166, SLA 1978, with later amendments including ch. 18, SLA 1979 and ch. 143, SLA 1982, but the note states no day, and no day on which the section came into force has been located.

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