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Yeah, in reality its like complaining someone "broke" into your care when you left all of your doors open.

> Yeah, in reality its like complaining someone "broke" into your care when you left all of your doors open.

And you wouldn't get much sympathy, but this is a legally viable complaint. When my car was stolen, the thief was charged for theft, but his girlfriend who was joyriding with him was charged for criminal trespass. Just being in the car when you don't have permission is illegal.

In the physical world (think "breaking and entering"), any amount of force (e.g. Pushing an already partially open door) counts as "breaking".

It isn't necessary to actually "break" anything.

Edit: Of course, it's still not a great metaphor because it implies there was at least some kind of barrier to entry that had to be pushed aside - but from the sounds of it, there wasn't.

"break into" means "gained unauthorized entry" or more simply "got into without permission".