Reverse engineering is not clearly illegal.

This guy didn't participate in the misappropriation, and probably didn't conspire with anybody to misappropriate it. Once it's posted online, it's just not secret anymore. At some point it becomes public information.

They sell it, and they make money off the personal information that I have given them. And what we are recognizing now on the Internet is that personal information is commodity.

What I would as a parent argue is that I can consent to my kid's monitoring. Hey, it's my kid. I can read their mail, but the federal law doesn't make any distinction. If I'm reading anybody's communications without their consent or without a consent of one party, I'm violating federal law.

The bad guy will have gone through many, many steps to conceal his identity, through pirated or hacked accounts.

It was an engineering feat. Bill even equipped it with springs to take care of the recoil, and he got it elevated so that marble would shoot as far as half a mile. Even the grown-ups were impressed.