Sure, but computer fraud is also a felony. And stealing someones mail from the garden mail post is trivial compared to stealing email. The analogy is not water

Sure, but computer fraud is also a felony. And stealing someones mail from the garden mail post is trivial compared to stealing email. The analogy is not waterproof but it is a good example of something that is quite easy to ruin by people in the neighbourhood but works quite ok anyway.