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/* R FRINGE COMMENTARY: Here's the Wyoming Computer Crimes Law,
Wyoming Criminal Code, Section 6-3-501, adopted in 1982/1983 */
SECTION 6-3-501 Definitions
As used in this article:
(i) "Access" means to approach, instruct, communicate with,
store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any
of the resources of a computer, computer system, or computer
network;
(ii) "Computer" means an internally programmed, automatic
device which performs data processing;
(iii) "Computer network" means a set of related, remotely
connected devices and communications facilities including more
than one (1) a computer system with capability to transmit data
among them through communication facilities;
(iv) "Computer program" means an ordered set of data
representing coded instructions or statements which when executed
by a computer cause the computer to process data;
(v) "Computer software" means a set of computer programs,
procedures and associated documentation concerned with the
operation of a computer system;
(vi) "Computer system" means a set of related, connected or
unconnected, computer equipment, devices and computer software;
(vii) "Computer system services" means providing a computer
system or computer network to perform useful work;
(viii) "Financial instrument" means a check, draft, money
order, certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of
exchange, credit card, or marketable security;
(ix) "Intellectual property" means data, including programs;
(x) "Property" includes financial instruments, information,
electronically produced data, computer software and programs in
machine-readable and human-readable form;
(xi) "Trade secret" means the whole or a portion or phase of
a formula, pattern, device, combination of devices or compilation
of information which is for use, or is used in the operation of a
business and which provides the business an advantage or
opportunity to obtain an advantage or opportunity to obtain an
advantage over those who do not know or use it. "Trade secret"
includes any scientific, technical or commercial information
including any design, process, procedure, list of suppliers, list
of customers, business code or improvement thereof. Irrespective
of novelty, invention, patentability, the state of the prior art
and the level of skill in the business, art or field to which the
subject matter pertains, when the owner of a trade secret takes
measures to prevent it from becoming available to persons other
than those selected by the owner to have access to it for limited
purposes, the trade secret is considered to be:
(A) Secret;
(B) Of value;
(C) For use or in use by the business; and
(D) Providing an advantage or an opportunity to obtain an
advantage to the business owner over those who do not know
or use it.
SECTION 6-3-502 Crimes against intellectual property; penalties
(a) A person commits a crime against intellectual property
if he knowingly and without authorization:
(i) Modifies data, programs or supporting documentation
residing or existing internal or external to a
computer, computer system or computer network;
(ii) Destroys data, programs or supporting
documentation residing or existing internal or external
to a computer, computer system or computer network;
(iii) Discloses or takes data, programs, or supporting
documentation having a value of more than seven hundred
fifty dollars ($750) and which is a trade secret and is
confidential, as provided by law, residing or existing
internal or external to a computer, computer system or
computer network.
(b) A crime against intellectual property is:
(i) A felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than
three (3) years, a fine of not more than three thousand dollars
($3,000.00), or both, except as is provided in paragraph (ii) of
this subsection;
(ii) A felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than
ten (10) years, a fine of not more than $ 10,000, or both, of
the crime is committed with the intention of devising or
executing a scheme or artifice to defraud or to obtain property.
SECTION 6-3-503 Crimes against computer equipment or supplies;
interruption or impairment of governmental operations or public
services; penalties
(a) A person commits a crime against computer equipment or
supplies if he knowingly and without authorization, modifies
equipment or supplies used or intended to be used in a computer,
computer system or computer network. A crime against computer
equipment or supplies is:
(i) A misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not
more than six (6) months, a fine of not more than seven hundred
fifty dollars ($750.00) or both, except as provided in paragraph
ii of this subsection;
(ii) A felony punishable imprisonment for not more than
ten (10) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars $
10,000.00), or both, if the crime is committed with the intention
of devising or executing a scheme or artifice to defraud to to
obtain property.
(b) A person who knowingly and without authorization
destroys, injures or damages a computer, computer system or
computer network and thereby interrupts or impairs governmental
operations or public communication, transportation or supplies of
water, gas or other public service, is guilty of a felony
punishable by imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, a
fine of not more than three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), or
both.
SECTION 6-3-504 Crimes against computer users; penalties
(a) A person commits a crime against computer users if he
knowingly and without authorization:
(i) Accesses a computer, computer system or computer
network;
(ii) Denies computer system services to an authorized
user of the computer system services which, in whole or part, are
owned by, under contract to, or operated for, on behalf of, or in
conjunction with another.
(b) A crime against computer users is:
(i) A felony punishable by imprisonment for not more
than three (3) years, a fine of not more than three thousand
dollars $ 3,000.00), or both.
(i) A felony punishable by imprisonment for not more
than ten (10) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand
dollars $ 3,000.00), or both; if the crime is committed with the
intention of devising or executing a scheme or artifice to
defraud or to obtain property.
SECTION 6-3-505 This article not exclusive
This article shall not preclude the application of any
other provision of the criminal law of this state which applies
or may apply to any violation of this article, unless the
provision is inconsistent with this article.
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