Hacker News Reader

Examples: The hackers that sent sequential iPad device numbers to AT&T servers and got email addresses back. The hacker that guesses Sarah Palin's password.

jcromartie's premise was, "If Dustin were a major corporation or a politician..."

IANAL, and it's not exactly the same circumstances, but when Sarah Palin's e-mail was hacked during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the FBI and Secret Service both "got involved". According to Wikipedia the hacker in question was eventually found guilty of (1) felony obstruction of justice by destruction of records and (2) misdemeanor unauthorized access to a computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_email_hack

Basically what I am wondering is if he were to make a post to Pepsi's blog on Posterous, what would the federal crime be?

The parent has a lot of upvotes, so I really want to know why they agree he committed a crime, rather than found a bug.

Upvotes aren't for agreeing.

Whether they found it insightful or interesting, they probably deemed the statement true. No need to split hairs.

Interstate something-or-other.