Even Markoff, in his New York Times article, admitted that I was clearly not interested in the prospect of financial gain. The scale of what I’d passed up was brought home to readers by Kent Walker’s assertion that I "allegedly had access to corporate trade secrets worth billions of dollars." But since I was never going to use or sell that information, what it was worth didn’t matter to me. So what was the nature of my crime? That I’d "allegedly had access"?