US Govt Pursue UK hacker

[Don Corleone]

So the guy basically found a DoD website that posted national secrets for anybody that cared to look, Legio? I find that hard to believe. Wouldn't that be the real shock of this story, not that the DoD was actually going after him? What's more, if that's the case, why do they refer to him as a 'hacker'? Just accessing a network PoP makes you a user. 'Hacking' implies that you have taken some step to defeat privacy/security protocols, no?

He himself admits that he was looking to steal secrets and that he thwarted security measures to do so. The fact that he claims he wasn't motivated by profit has no bearing. He caused some very real damage and who knows what his actual intentions were. For all we know, he's an agent of the PRC and he was indeed highly motivated by profit.