FWIW, there are some things that lots of sysadmins do on a week-to-week basis as part of their job – that other people have ended up with felony convictions for…
(Note: all 3 felony convictions were "expunged" eventually, but for 12 years he had all the restrictions and problems a convicted felon lives with, all for "doing his job", or possibly "overstepping the bounds of his authority while doing his job".)
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz
(Note: all 3 felony convictions were "expunged" eventually, but for 12 years he had all the restrictions and problems a convicted felon lives with, all for "doing his job", or possibly "overstepping the bounds of his authority while doing his job".)