Unfortunately, yes. The law legally protects anything which you might use to gain unauthorized access; that includes e.g. a password field. (That is, it is indeed breaking into a system if you type in the correct password, say by reading it on a post-it on someone's monitor, but you are not supposed to know that password.) This sort of thing makes the entire business of law complicated and impossible to automate.

Then again, lots of sci-fi dystopias are dreams of an automated law that somehow destroys the fabric of society, so...