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If someone's left their door unlocked, and you notice, you let them know it.

You don't walk in and rummage around their house to "investigate the severity".

This is a bad analogy - it's more like you request access to an area, there are no locks, you're invited in and told that the content is not restricted.

No, it isn’t. This is a self-serving fiction, and repeating it for the witless is how they end up being prosecuted.

The mitigating circumstance is if you have a written agreement that says, you are authorised to be there, and doing what you’re doing.

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