So, some sunlight averse, snack-food junkiespends 3 years in momma’s basement trying to crack the code to electronic door locks. Me, I like photography and sporting clays. To each his own.
However, instead of telling the vendor in question, or other similar vendors, that a flaw may exist in their product that endangers people, he goes public. Super idea.
Enter knucklehead #1. Not necessarily the only person to do this, but just one that got caught. He fashions his own gizmo per the junkie’s instructions, and sets about breaking into hotel rooms.
My question for you unfrozen law-talking guys and other educated individuals is this: what culpability, if any, does our troglodyte friend have in this case? What if someone were injured, raped, or killed at the hands of someone who copied Cheeto-boy’s gizmo and gained entry with it?
Now we’re all familiar with the Anarchist’s Cookbook and other fun missives that are sold “for entertainment purposes only”, and there’s a hundred kids on Youtube teaching us how to pick locks - your own, mind you - and there’s no liability for them.
Should the guy who gives me directions to the liquor store where I then proceed to buy booze, get hammered, and plow through a T-ball game have any liability? No, I think not.
I’m the one who drank, drove, and plowed; it’s all on me.
Yet, shouldn’t there be some liability here? Surely giving highly technical instructions to commit a crime that is otherwise impossible is more odious than telling someone that the Brinks truck shows up at 3 each afternoon, wink, wink.
C’mon law students. Dig in there and find me something with teeth! If Jack Mcoy can always find some arcane law against dogs shedding on Tuesdays, I know you guys can do just as well!