It's a crime to intentionally drive a car over someone. Legal systems vary across the world but I would imagine most of them account for mens rea. So, crafting

It's a crime to intentionally drive a car over someone. Legal systems vary across the world but I would imagine most of them account for mens rea. So, crafting API calls to intentionally bring down a system most definitely can be a criminal offence. Now if you're objection was to the use of felony as opposed to misdemeanor, then ignore whatever I said above.