one should bear in mind that the CEO can't steal from you as you gave it to him to begin with. the anticipation was that he would do something to make your money grow but if you read the fine print there is never a guarantee.

Yes.
I'm more interested in the morality of it than the law.
Why is it a stupid idea? Drgoodtrips said it rather well, so I won't bother repeating.

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Apparently, in Texas this is irrelevant, as anyone can come in with guns blazing, so long as the person is stealing from someone.

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I used the CEO as an example... there are plenty of other forms of electronic theft.

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If it was a physical theft from you then absolutely, yes.

A CEO is no more exhempt from any of the weight of the law then anyone else.

And of course if it is not tresspassing onto anybody else's property without their consent for you to continue to chase after him.

No its not a class distinction. If he is doing it from within his own office he is protected in his own way in his property, you can't tresspass on someone else's property to chase someone, which is why, like with the Horn case, its usually done from his own property as he is protected by the Castle law, and even if he chased them out onto the street, that's public property that he lawfully has access to, not someone else's private property.

I understand. All the ones that come to mind play out the same. But perhaps I'm not thinking of one that you might be that does not.

What if you meet the electronic criminal on the street?

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"Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and behold I guard it until it is ablaze."
Gospel of Thomas

Well, I'd assume this theft is occurring in the office building, which is property of the corporation and not the CEO. Thus, the CEO and the avenger likely have equal right to be there which means CEO's are now in season. Yeeeee-hawwwww!!!!

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

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its very relevant as a corporation is not a "someone".

Say you lose your wallet and someone picks it up and starts spending with your credit card, and you find out who it is.

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Sure it is. This is the entire purpose of incorporating. It can own property, engage in contractual arrangements, and it shields employees from legal responsibility in non-criminal cases (generally). And, I don't think it would be much of a stretch to make a case that there is a real theft occurring vis a vis any and all shareholders.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

Someone who embezzles money from a corporation is a someone.

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"Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and behold I guard it until it is ablaze."
Gospel of Thomas

then its a little too late to stop the burglery, and turns to vigilante reprisal.

that "someone" is embezzling from a "something".

True - what if someone "tresspasses" their way into my home computer from a remote location and steals my banking information...