Is password guessing legal?

[Brian McWilliams]

At 04:34 PM 10/28/2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> >The e-mails sent to press at uruklink.net were obtained earlier this month
>by first clicking on a link labeled "Check your e-mail in Uruk" on the
>homepage of Iraq's state-controlled ISP, Uruklink.net, then guessing the
>login name and password -- both of which were the same five-letter word.
><
>
>Did that Wired reporter just admit to a crime?
>
>http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,55967,00.html

What if he did?

B.