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> Intent matters, and he was found guilty of accessing a computer with authorization.

Right and a lot of people are saying that it's a miscarriage of justice to prosecute someone based on implied knowledge or assumed knowledge.

It wasn't proven the same way you can prove a great many other things. A jury was convinced of something, and that doesn't constitute actual proof. Just because the government says something is true doesn't make it so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill



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