This is Slashdot. Don't expect anything sensible or even half reasonable about Microsoft here.

Completely lacking in insight, in fact.
If all travellers with mobile phones thought it was ok to steal electricity in this way it would come to quite a large sum.
At the end of the day everyone would have to pay with increased fares.
Therefore it's necessary to show that this small delict actually has significant social costs.

Don't you need two?

forbid forbade forbidden. It's forbade.

After all?

the Sun informs GCHQ and so on so they can quickly stem the leak, I assume