> doing it with javascript is a felony
Wut
Wut
https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technol...
No one was actually sent to jail, but the proprietor of the site was dragged through the media as a dangerous hacker and felon.
There's probably other notable cases with the same failure mode.
One of the things you learn working in computer security: history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
I do like Mark Twain