[jumpy]

Sucks to be that guy... bullyboy tactics from the air force... I bet they don't hack civilian contractors software, large companies with interests and backing. They pay for it instead. Come to think of it, how many government officials have been involved with the process of bringing hackers to justice? iirc one of my countrymen has just lost a high court case to prevent him being extradited to the US for computer hacking. When did a US citizen last get extradited to the UK for anything less than murder?

Seems to me that the guy did something good and when he tried to keep in the loop as the creator of this new better way of doing his software thing, someone got on a power trip and it finally ended up in court where unsurprisingly the state used a convenient 'loophole' - you know, the 'ooh, we'll keep that one, just in case..' - to avoid any further hindrance to its agenda.

At face value, they could have handled it so much better.