The liberal opposition party of Sweden, Folkpartiet, has intruded in the computers of the current ruling party, Socialdemokraterna.
They, or to be precise - some of their workers, have during a long time regularly logged into the social democratic net to get internal documents for the election campaign.
That is bad. Very bad. And unexcusable. And probably criminal. But is it as bad as the newspapers make it look?
The task of a journalist is to report facts - not to guess and phantasise as I do. And thereby they lose an important point.
The temptation in this case has been much bigger than the temptation of a house burglar. A house burglar has to at least leave the street to get into your house. In this case, the temptation was simply to guess a good password in the party worker's normal chair.
Assume the following situation. You have a house, and you decide to remove the front door completely, so anyone can come and go as they want. If someone enters your house, it is still against the law, but you can hardly play surprised if it happens.
And assume you have a dedicated room, where you never go yourself. It has no door to the street, so anyone can walk in. You install a one way window between this room and your main apartment, so anyone in this wide open room unseen can see whatever you are doing.
It is hardly surprising if someone repeatedly walks into this isolated room, if you do something interesting, like oil painting or cook exotic food.
It is not excusable, but neither is it very surprising if it happens.
And that is the point a journalist cannot make on this issue.
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