Basically he was charged on three count: intruding in a private computer system, maintaining himself in said computer system, and theft of private documents. T

Basically he was charged on three count: intruding in a private computer system, maintaining himself in said computer system, and theft of private documents. The ruling said he was innocent of the first charge, since it was due to a security flaw, but guilty of the second, since he realized he was in a private system (he admitted to navigating the hierarchy and finding that the repository was "protected" by a login and password). He was also ruled guilty of the theft (the author of the blogpost, an attorney, says he should have been charged with counterfeiting instead, since that is the proper indictment for copyright violations).