code input into the specified computer associated therewith by a person wishing to engage in
said specified use is identical with the identification code associated with said specified use
(including a combination of a code generated from the identification code using a method
specified by the access administrator concerned and a part of the identification code concerned,
the same applying in items (ⅰ) and (ⅱ) of the following paragraph).
(4) The term “act of unauthorized computer access” as used in this Act means any of the
following:
(ⅰ) An act of rendering a specified computer with an access control feature available for
specified use that is subject to restrictions imposed by the access control feature concerned by
inputting someone else's identification code associated with the access control feature
concerned via a telecommunications link and thus operating the specified computer concerned
(excluding such an act engaged in by the access administrator who has added the access
control feature concerned and upon obtaining permission from the access administrator
concerned or the authorized user to whom the identification code concerned belongs)
(ⅱ) An act of rendering a specified computer with an access control feature available for
specified use that is subject to restrictions imposed by the access control feature concerned by
inputting any information (excluding an identification code) or command suitable for evading
the restrictions on said specified use via a telecommunications link and thus operating the
specified computer concerned (excluding such an act engaged in by the access administrator
who has added the access control feature concerned and upon obtaining permission from the
access administrator concerned, the same applying in the following item)
(ⅲ) An act of rendering a specified computer available for specified use that is subject to
restrictions imposed by the access control feature of another specified computer connected
thereto via a telecommunications link by inputting any information or command suitable for
evading said restrictions into this other computer via a telecommunications link and thus
operating the specified computer concerned
(Prohibition of acts of unauthorized computer access)
Article 3 No person shall engage in an act of unauthorized computer access.
(Prohibition of acts of obtaining someone else's identification code)
Article 4 No person shall obtain someone else's identification code associated with an access
control feature to engage in an act of unauthorized computer access (limited to the kind specified
in Article 2, paragraph (4) item (ⅰ), the same applying in Article 6 and Article 12, item (ⅱ)).
(Prohibition of acts of facilitating unauthorized computer access)
Article 5 No person shall, unless there are justifiable grounds for refusing to do so or any other
legitimate reason therefor, supply someone else's identification code associated with an access
control feature to a person other than the access administrator associated with the access control
feature concerned and the authorized user to whom the identification code concerned belongs.