They should be charged with handling stolen information and a new crime of "willfully using illegally obtained data".
So that's Assange running from the police then. Oh, wait, i mean Assange running from the police for something else as well ...
Slightly more seriously, legislating this is not an easy thing: you can't just say "illegally obtained data" for commercial gain, as selling newspapers is definitely commercial gain. Given the UK government's appalling record on writing legislation that can only be used for intended purpose (antiterror law vs local council, anyone?), i'm not sure this is something they should even try? For clarity, I mean the permanent part of govt, not any particular party - the idiocy that is the Snoopers Charter came up now, but it's predecessor under Mandelson; the classification of school catchment "cheats" as international terrorists could easily have come up under this lot rather than the previous lot, etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
