Here's a little quote from
Maryland State Law on that very topic:
"(1) A person may not intentionally, willfully, and without authorization access, attempt to access, cause to be accessed, or exceed the person's authorized access to all or part of a computer network, computer control language, computer, computer software, computer system, computer services, or computer database."
[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 146; 2002, ch. 26, § 2.]
(2) "Access" means to instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve or intercept data from, or otherwise use the resources of a computer program, computer system, or computer network.
The lawyers would have to confirm, but I think you can't be doing this in some other state to a computer system used in Maryland, even if the computer isn't in MD.
They didn't have to access..they had a shill..MD4Bush..He posted the private mail on 2/8 to 3 totally unrelated threads..Do a search on his poster name and look at his posts..his last previous post was in Dec. He posted on those old threads so when a search was done on his name..he had it there. It was a parting gloat...!
The anonymous internet is a great place to do stealth dirty tricks...and MD seemed awfully interested in dirty tricks...The Sun's own message boards had the rumors out there but now it is made to appear the rumor started here..
Seems they don't like a "Kennedy" getting beaten by a Republican in Maryland. This is all to get back at the Governor.