Checking your wife's email to see if she's cheating on you: It definitely makes you a snoop, and possibly a bad husband. But a hacker? That's the label prosecutors are trying to lay on Leon Walker, charging the 33-year-old man with breaking a statute that's more normally applied to people who want to steal your credit card numbers or your identity rather than prove your infidelity. From the Detroit Free Press:
Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper defended her decision to charge Leon Walker. "The guy is a hacker," Cooper said in a voice mail response to the Free Press last week. "It was password protected, he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained. Then he downloaded them and used them in a very contentious way."
Mr. Walker is indeed a computer technician, but his defense rests on arguing that his wife had no expectation of privacy because he used the ...
