The guy was slammed with 3 counts: for soliciting prostitution (misdemeanor), stealing time from work (felony), and 'unauthorized computer/network' use (ie, 'ha

The guy was slammed with 3 counts: for soliciting prostitution (misdemeanor), stealing time from work (felony), and 'unauthorized computer/network' use (ie, 'hacking', also felony). They thoroughly nailed him with a misdemeanor and a felony which are arguably reasonable, hence there's no need to apply a computer hacking law in a plainly unreasonable way. As applied here it means that any use of a computer "beyond the scope of the express consent" is a felony. Twitter and ebay use at work could be felonies under the same reasoning. I understand juries are a safeguard against unreasonable laws (go founding fathers), but I'd sooner have reasonable laws to begin with.