I came here to post this as well, and to say it sounds incompetent that they required no credentials and no authorization to let someone use their systems - yet

I came here to post this as well, and to say it sounds incompetent that they required no credentials and no authorization to let someone use their systems - yet claim it was a a crime. They did not even look for the person for 2 months (according to the article). What's worse is he basically broke the terms and conditions on JSTOR's site, and the MIT networking terms, and got charged with 30+ years of felonies (!). Possibly because he was a critic of the government as noted in the article (!). Be careful what crap you agree to when you agree to a network or sites terms and conditions!