Often in this field of research one will run across some detective or spy of some sort that thinks one has the secrets of the universe or something. This is the age of snooping and violation of privacy like no other and when something hits the fan you find out some smarty aleck with no credentials nor authority to do what they’ve been doing has gotten themselves and their parents or company or worse, their government in deep you-know-what because they felt they had a right to violate the law.
History is full of these clowns and it’s a shame we have to waste resources in litigation against them. Some people just don’t get that there are laws in this land and they weren’t written because the paper was pretty.