[JumpCrisscross]

> Foreign actors can simply hire sys admins to access whatever they want, no need for hacking

This is prosecutable under a myriad of existing laws. CFAA was specifically crafted to deter and punish hacking. As far as I know, that's still very much a thing.

[treis]

It's not immediately clear which laws. The whole point of the CFAA was that existing trespass & theft laws don't really work for digital files.

[JumpCrisscross]

> not immediately clear which laws

Yes it is, theft of trade secrets [1].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dow-research-scientist...

[pbhjpbhj]

Espionage is illegal.