Oh come on. That's not even stretching. That's just throwing random things out there. Sending a message on a site that allows everybody to send messages is not

Oh come on. That's not even stretching. That's just throwing random things out there. Sending a message on a site that allows everybody to send messages is not 'exceeding authorized access.' I don't find the violation of an arbitrary rule to be unethical in and of itself. Action and probabilistic consideration of consequences is what matters. For that mouthful on the end what I mean is that e.g. running a red light, even when nothing bad happens, could still be considered unethical depending on the probabilistic consideration of possible outcomes. Amazon's intentions and actions were positive and productive. Nobody was directly hurt or harmed in any way whatsoever, and there was really no chance of anybody being hurt or harmed in any way. Seems 100% on the up and up to me.