"B) That he is entitled to hack through any and every computer system, no matter what damage it might do, because the systems were poorly designed, as Backwoodsman and others contend,"

And there, Stim old chap, is the problem. The worlds greatest military power has a computer system that is hackable from a guy in his bedroom on a laptop.Thankfully his interest was harmless, it don't do to think too long about just what hostile hacker could have done.

This guy may, for all we know, have prevented a nuclear war, and you want him executed?

Sounds like a typically mad American insular response to me.