I would assume collecting the DNS information from the White House is no no. Unless this person/company had explicit permission to capture and then disseminate this information I think they are probably going to be in some legal trouble.
Sure, it's ethically and legally wrong, but I was reacting to the "access to White House computers" in the title. But it's understandable that journalists think that monitoring of DNS traffic implies access to the computers that initiate the traffic.
Got it. Yes I would completely agree its unfair to categorize it "access to white house computers". It would be more accurate imo to say they were monitoring where traffic was going on the white house computers.