Quote Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
So how come they can't mention a single security protocol that they had? And since they seem to not have had any proper security it's very embarassing to them and they obviously know very little about computers so they call him a hacker. You can call someone terrorist if you don't like what they think, even if they've never used any violence. That doesn't make them guilty of being terrorists. It's when they beyond reasonable doubt plan or carry out such actions that they become terrorists. The problem in this case is that since there are no security protocols there's nothing in his communication that differs it enough from normal usage that you can formulate it into a general law. Only if you use passwords and accept any request message but respond to unauthorized with an access denied and question for password response message, can you clearly differ between when it's hacking and not hacking, in a way that can easily be formulated into a law.
You're not making any sense. He claims to have hacked into the system, admits he knew exactly what he was doing and that he was accessing systems he didn't have authorization to access, and you claim it's okay because 1) the DoD won't list their security protocols to the beeb and 2) he didn't have terrorist intentions?

Sorry man, no matter how much you want the 'free electronic frontier' and a free world for hackers as long as they don't have a political motive, it's still wrong, it's still illegal, and as your friend is about to find out, it's still punishable.