That would make sense if anyone could possibly understand the penalties.
It's like saying don't jaywalk if you aren't ready for felony charges that might get applied. I mean the only law you really broke was jaywalking, but then you are charged with 9 counts of wire fraud because you wore a different outfit each day -- obviously changing your appearance was fraudulent.
It would be like that if no one knew that jaywalking carried felony charges, but it's not as if CFAA is a new law, or that there haven't been at least a dozen or so other famous hackers fall afoul of it. Given that aaronsw seemed to know pg, it would stand to reason that he'd at least heard of rtm, (convicted under CFAA and also a Y Combinator co-founder).
It's like saying don't jaywalk if you aren't ready for felony charges that might get applied. I mean the only law you really broke was jaywalking, but then you are charged with 9 counts of wire fraud because you wore a different outfit each day -- obviously changing your appearance was fraudulent.