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Originally Posted by SeanF
That's exactly like saying if you leave your front door standing open, it's stupid to be angry if the public accesses your house. It may be technically true, but the people entering your house are still going to jail.
A door standing open is not a legal invitation to use, whether that door is physical or digital.
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Except of course that a computer is nothing like a house, and the digital "door" isn't really analagous to a physical door at all.
But if you do insist on arguing from analogy, here's one that's closer to the truth of the matter:
A locked door, with a bar code engraved on the front. The bar code may encode access authorization and an access key, or it may encode access prohibition, and no key. Anybody can walk up to the door with a bar code reader, and scan the bar code on the locked door. They will see either a message from the door's owner, granting them access and giving them a key to unlock the door, or they will see a message denying them access. If the bar code grants access, and provides a key, then what?