> you forget that what is the most important in a prosecution is the intent
The intent is to sell hacked access to somebody else's servers.
If I sell hacked access to Microsoft's Office 365 servers, I can claim to have any motivations I like. It's still a crime.
Beeper intent is to serve both Apple customers and non Apple customers to exchange messages securely. Its goal is interoperability, not stealing, or blindly using resources it doesn't own.