Schwartz was being made an example of (and it's a tragedy, no doubt) but it was more about certain parties flexing their influence over the legal system than it

Schwartz was being made an example of (and it's a tragedy, no doubt) but it was more about certain parties flexing their influence over the legal system than it was cultural attitudes about computer access. If you stoped a random on the street and asked them about how Swartz should be punished, you might have a hard time convincing them that what he did was a crime at all. I don't think it's a well defined pendulum anymore. Our computer systems used to be little hermetically sealed boxes where network activity was the exception, not the rule. "Breaking in" was a rather well defined thing. Things are different now. The modern web would look to people in the 80's like one giant remote code execution exploit. There are so many cases where commonly used apps phone home for updates and instructions (and for some reason, we're ok with this). Last time I installed Windows it tried to get me to set up a Microsoft account which I could use to manage it. Unless you've taken steps to opt out of this, your device isn't so much "your" device as it is the part of the vendor's fleet of devices which happens to be assigned to you. Betrayals of trust still happen, and they're still serious, but "unauthorized entry" is an outmoded way of thinking about them.