This is part of the wider process of turning being technologically skillful (or at least, more skillful than those in power) into a crime in itself. We've already seen countless of examples, and it's really nothing new.

It started way back when the establishment managed to get society to equate "hacker" with "criminal". Many have argued that we should just accept that as a historical fact, but the propaganda was deliberate and the process that created the propaganda has only gathered strength since.

Witches and heretics, the lot of you.