I'm old enough to remember when innocuously poking around other systems was a crime, and many a curious person were charged and found guilty. But if I write a program to do it..?
I am familiar with this also, but it doesn't seem like the implementers of that apparatus/value-system made the absolute best choice balance in terms of long term safety and security our computer systems. Is the conclusion about this rhetoric that it is right to punish innocuous poking of systems? Or the inverse? Which would you have preferred if we had an opportunity to refine it?