"A criminal is a criminal; US Politics aside, these guys exceeded their authorized access to a US government computer. They are no more then criminals, ignorant ones at that!"

It is an accepted fact that the files were accessed WITHOUT having to supply any type of password. That being true, it means the system said they were authorized. Whether or not they should have been authorized is a different matter. They are not accussed of breaking into a computer, but accessing file that the system let them access.

If you found a link on a goverment web page that took you to information you were not suppoesed to see, were you guilty? If you were not authorized to see it, then the system would have asked you for a password, or something similar.

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