Cybercrime’s Scope: Interpreting “Access” and “Authorization” in Computer Misuse Statutes, links you to the abstract and here is the link to download the entire paper (pdf), by Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University – Law School. From the abstract: “In the last twenty-five years, the federal government and all fifty states have enacted new criminal laws that prohibit unauthorized access to computers. …This Article presents a comprehensive inquiry into the meaning of unauthorized access statutes.”