A house has features designed to protect valuable resources, just like a computer system. They're both publically accessible. It's illegal to, without permission, intrude into either, regardless of your intentions.

The fact that malicious activity is rampant on the internent is no excuse to allow this type of behavior. Your argument is like telling someone that if they don't want their home broken into, then they shouldn't have a home.


I think anyone who isn't aware of the idea that anything they plug into the internet is equally liable to be accessed by UN-ethical persons, as well as (gasp! OH NO!) *ethical* persons, has no business plugging it in in the first place.

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