The law is not a computer program; intent is more important than the mechanism.
Imagine a real-world example. Alice wants to murder you. You have a kid. Alice calls you, exactly imitating the voice of your kid, telling you she's trapped under a girder at the abandoned bridge across town. You frantically race across town to free your trapped kid. You get to the bridge and notice it's on the verge of collapsing, and that there's a "no trespassing" sign posted. You ignore that and try to save your kid. You trip over something and that upsets the unstable structure of the bridge. It collapses, crushing you while you fall 3000 feet to your ultimate demise.
Guess what, you were just murdered.
Even though Alice did not physically drive a knife into your heart, she still killed you. She intended to kill you (that's the first part), and then set into a motion a chain of events that resulted in you dying. That's murder.
Going back to our computer example... even though the author of this blog post didn't break into your house and log you out of Google, the result is the same. He intended for you to be logged out of Google without your permission or Google's permission, and you were logged out of Google. Therefore, your computer account was maliciously accessed.
The reality of the situation is that he's in Russia and I doubt Russia gives a damn about this.
Imagine a real-world example. Alice wants to murder you. You have a kid. Alice calls you, exactly imitating the voice of your kid, telling you she's trapped under a girder at the abandoned bridge across town. You frantically race across town to free your trapped kid. You get to the bridge and notice it's on the verge of collapsing, and that there's a "no trespassing" sign posted. You ignore that and try to save your kid. You trip over something and that upsets the unstable structure of the bridge. It collapses, crushing you while you fall 3000 feet to your ultimate demise.
Guess what, you were just murdered.
Even though Alice did not physically drive a knife into your heart, she still killed you. She intended to kill you (that's the first part), and then set into a motion a chain of events that resulted in you dying. That's murder.
Going back to our computer example... even though the author of this blog post didn't break into your house and log you out of Google, the result is the same. He intended for you to be logged out of Google without your permission or Google's permission, and you were logged out of Google. Therefore, your computer account was maliciously accessed.
The reality of the situation is that he's in Russia and I doubt Russia gives a damn about this.