Actually, the patriot act doesn't have anything to do with suing people... and it's actually about getting information about people who fit its description of terrorists. It doesn't really have much to do with prosecuting at all. So maybe, if they stretched the law, and classified releasing an exploit as an act of terrorism, then they could use the patriot act to get information like the books he gets out of the library and some bank records. But that has nothing to do with prosecuting him for it.
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Actually, the patriot act doesn't have anything to do with suing people... and it's actually about getting information about people who fit its description of terrorists. It doesn't really have much to do with prosecuting at all. So maybe, if they stretched the law, and classified releasing an exploit as an act of terrorism, then they could use the patriot act to get information like the books he gets out of the library and some bank records. But that has nothing to do with prosecuting him for it.