AKA he typed "su". Or whatever the Windows equivalent is. I do this all the time to diagnose problems and no one has ever written an article about me. :/
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz
(Note: all 3 felony convictions were "expunged" eventually, but for 12 years he had all the restrictions and problems a convicted felon lives with, all for "doing his job", or possibly "overstepping the bounds of his authority while doing his job".)
Describing how Bradley Manning using 'wget' was considered computer fraud because it was not on the list of approved programs.