§ 6-3-501 — Definitions

Wyoming § 6-3-501

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 06: Crimes and Offenses
• Ch. 3: OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY
• Art. 5: COMPUTER CRIMES

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(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Access" means to approach, instruct, communicate
with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use
of any resources of a computer, computer system or computer
network;
(ii) "Computer" means an internally programmed,
automatic device which performs data processing;
(iii) "Computer network" means a set of related,
remotely connected devices and communication facilities
including more than one (1) computer system with capability to
transmit data among them through communication facilities;
(iv) "Computer program" means an ordered set of data
representing coded instructions or statements which when
executed by a computer cause the computer to process data;
(v) "Computer software" means a set of computer
programs, procedures and associated documentation concerned with
the operation of a computer system;
(vi) "Computer system" means a set of related,
connected or unconnected, computer equipment, devices or
computer software;
(vii) "Computer system services" means providing a
computer system or computer network to perform useful work;
(viii) "Financial instrument" means a check, draft,
money order, certificate of deposit, letter of credit, bill of
exchange, credit card or marketable security;
(ix) "Intellectual property" means data, including
programs;
(x) "Property" includes financial instruments,
information, electronically produced data, computer software and
programs in machine-readable or human-readable form;
(xi) "Trade secret" means the whole or a portion or
phase of a formula, pattern, device, combination of devices or
compilation of information which is for use, or is used in the
operation of a business and which provides the business an
advantage or an opportunity to obtain an advantage over those
who do not know or use it. "Trade secret" includes any
scientific, technical or commercial information including any
design, process, procedure, list of suppliers, list of
customers, business code or improvement thereof. Irrespective of
novelty, invention, patentability, the state of the prior art
and the level of skill in the business, art or field to which
the subject matter pertains, when the owner of a trade secret
takes measures to prevent it from becoming available to persons
other than those selected by the owner to have access to it for
limited purposes, the trade secret is considered to be:
(A) Secret;
(B) Of value;
(C) For use or in use by the business; and
(D) Providing an advantage or an opportunity to
obtain an advantage to the business over those who do not know
or use it.