Yeah, my problem with it is that the US has so many laws that pretty much anything we do is illegal in a couple of different ways. Especially with computer crim

Yeah, my problem with it is that the US has so many laws that pretty much anything we do is illegal in a couple of different ways. Especially with computer crimes, where a judge/jury (and sometimes the lawyers involved) may not have the technical understanding to comprehend what's going on. It defeats the purpose of double jeopardy protection if prosecutors can just go back, find another law that was passed 200 years ago but maybe applies in some theoretical sense, and charge you under that law. The entire basis of the US criminal system is that in the case of prosecutorial misconduct / incompetence, the benefit of the doubt goes to the accused. It's better to let a guilty man go free than to lock up an innocent one. If we're eroding that basic premise through an increasingly opaque legal system, that's a big problem.