@WPalant I don't know if this is interesting to you or not, but even more ridiculous things have happened. My actual state (Missouri) accused a reporter of being a hacker and tried to file criminal charges because they looked at the source code of a website. The prosecutor wouldn't go along with it, thankfully.
@holyramenempire I know, heard about these cases. But it’s one thing if such things happen in bad faith or because of incompetence, and quite another if a law is so broad that this is a reasonable interpretation of it.