You state
"Fortunately, this provision also specifies that it doesn't apply if "the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $ 5,000 in any 1-year period."
But do not explore this exemption in your article. Yet you clearly state that getting a wi-fi connection is "use". Therefore it seems that just obtaining internet wi-fi access to an unguarded access point fits within this exception if all one is doing is surfing the net and not trying to easedrop on packets from that access point.

Secondly, I thought it was decided in Federal Court long ago, that intercepted voice communications from a cordless phone with no encryption was not protected. The same as CB radio communications are not protected. Therefore, if the access point is transmitting in plain text, how is this different? It's radio communication of a plain "voice" sort.

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