I think you could be right. This isn’t some “right click view source” nonsense. OP put in some decent amount of effort into compromising the bank’s system. A

I think you could be right. This isn’t some “right click view source” nonsense. OP put in some decent amount of effort into compromising the bank’s system. A judge and jury will not understand this, even if they are a computer literate power user, and even if they work in IT in a non-security role. I also assume that OP is telling their side of the story in the most favorable way possible, and could be omitting some details.