i agree.
there are enough laws on the books to indict every single person in this country for something... all 'law enforcement' needs is the ability to poke and peek.
Are you showing your (technical) age?
It brought this old programmer memories of using the "POKE" and "PEEK" commands in BASIC to insert and read data into/from assembly-language routines (which could then be "CALLed" from BASIC...).
Ah, for the good ol' days -- when you could write your own applications -- on machines that came with a whole 16KB of RAM... (And yes, that is "sixteen KILO bytes"...)
OTOH, I don't miss the thrill of using a Radio Shack audio cassette tape recorder as my "disk drive" for program storage... '-)