http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/09/the_u_s_government_needs_cybersecurity_experts_with_dodgy_pasts.html

One of my computer security students came up to me after class recently, worried about his ongoing security clearance for a government internship. “I had a small run-in with the IT staff on campus a few years ago,” he told me. “They just gave me a warning, there were no repercussions or anything, but do you think that will affect my clearance?” We had just spent a week in class discussing the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and reading about all the ways that computer-based misbehavior can land you in serious trouble with the law. So it wasn’t entirely surprising that some of my students—almost all of whom are computer security majors—would be thinking about the potential consequences of their technical expertise.