The law states that if your door is open someone sits in your house and watches TV as long as you cannot prove damages. Then you don't have them on anything but trespassing and invasion of privacy if you have a good lawyer.

True Example.

An elderly woman is asleep in bed. Her window is left open because she wants a breeze and lives out in the country. A guy comes crawling in her window. She takes a shotgun and shoots the guy with buckshot. It doesn't kill him just screwed up his leg. Then he sues the old woman saying his car broke down and he was coming in the window to use the phone. He won the case.

Pinging a person would be the equivalent of noticing if the window was closed or not. If the guy saw the window was open and went through it then I would say yeah sue him he had no right to be there. This guy wasn't even trying exploits on them or anything he was just port scanning and it supposedly ran over. This is not a crime. Standing out in the streeet and noticing someone's front door is open is not a crime. I am glad the judge made the decision that he did.

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