[pogo101]

Inadvertently opening said folder is one thing. Wandering in and copying everything in the folder is something else entirely.

I'm not disputing that. I'm saying it doesn't sound like the sort of thing that a statutory section whose title refers to "intercepting wire communications" was intended to criminalize. Sounds like a lower-level wrong to me, possibly only a tort and not a crime.

[Poohbah]

I'm not disputing that. I'm saying it doesn't sound like the sort of thing that a statutory section whose title refers to "intercepting wire communications" was intended to criminalize. Sounds like a lower-level wrong to me, possibly only a tort and not a crime.

Wrong--it is EXACTLY what the ECPA was intended to criminalize.