In 1992, an IRS agent named Richard Czubinski had used his access to IRS computers to snoop into the tax returns of various political figures, celebrities, and other government officials. He did it out of curiosity. He was charged, like me, with computer and wire fraud, and convicted in December 1995. After being sentenced to six months in prison, he successfully appealed his case. The Federal appellate court held that Czubinski, like me, had never intended to either use or disclose the information but had simply accessed it for his own curiosity . He won the appeal, his convictions were reversed, and he never went to prison.