Van Buren clearly committed a heinous act and should be punished. The issue is that this is a hacking statue. He didn't hack into the system, he just used it i

Van Buren clearly committed a heinous act and should be punished. The issue is that this is a hacking statue. He didn't hack into the system, he just used it in a bad way. The punishment should be the same if he got it from a filing cabinet he had the keys to. The takeaway isn't "If you have access, everything you do is legal" -- not for computers, not for filing cabinets.