Apparently the Defense did not do much of anything. The novelty of this seems to be, “Does declaring oneself a ‘hacker’ impute a likelihood of malfeasance, even in the absence of a history of behavior?” I have a feeling this is going to be shredded on appeal.
Besides, if he was a real Hacker, Molten Thermite would have been burning thru those disks as they entered the premises.