[tptacek]

"Some woman"? Jennifer Granick was a friend of Aaron Swartz's, the Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and more or less the go-to lawyer for #hack for something like a decade. That in addition to the fact that she has actually defended computer crime cases against this exact US Attorney's office.

Seriously: find any DMS-100-hacking member of the Masters of Deception from back in the 1990s and ask them to name a lawyer. Jennifer Granick's is the only name you'll hear from more than one person. She represented Kevin Poulson, for fuck's sake.

It seems very unlikely to me that her analysis is less informed than yours. I think you've made a mistake in your analysis here.