Is That a Good Metric?

A boy named Richard got a D in computer science. His family said he'd only been like hacking and scooting and rebooting for like six months. He's charged with 12 counts of gaining unauthorized access to computer systems. You wonder what in the world could be going on? But you're not ashamed of your curiosity. What you're like one of those hackers you might have read about in the paper. Your only crime is curiosity.