Surely he knew prison would be a likely outcome of his actions? If he was not prepared to do jail time (like hundreds of other hackers and activists had done wi

Surely he knew prison would be a likely outcome of his actions? If he was not prepared to do jail time (like hundreds of other hackers and activists had done without a whimper), then perhaps he should have recalculated what he was doing. For someone so intelligent, it seems he didn't fully understand the implications of his own actions, which is puzzling on several different levels. While his suicide was a tragedy, it was completely avoidable.