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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:
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- (A) Secret;
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- (B) Of value;
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- (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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