The worst thing is, that according to the report he&#x27;s both claiming that giving a login to strangers to &quot;fuck it up&quot; is &quot;an act of journalism&quot; and simultaneously protesting that he&#x27;s completely innocent and it must have been someone else using his login to pass another of his logins to hackers whilst masquerading as a person with a grudge against his ex-employer. It&#x27;s basically the <i>reductio ad absurdum</i> version of all the more sensible arguments people have made about computer crime legislation not upholding free speech and giving insufficient attention to burden of proof.<p>I agree that this is the sort of low level vandalism whose sentencing time should be measured in days rather than years, but it doesn&#x27;t really help the case of civil liberties when the usual supporters of the cause rush to make someone so undeserving a martyr.