If you call yourself a hacker, does that automatically imply you have criminal intent?

If you call yourself a hacker, does that automatically imply you have criminal intent? Although that’s clearly ludicrous, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho decided that a self-described label of “hacker” is significant enough to be used as evidence for bad intentions. Furthermore, the Court decided that since the defendant called himself a hacker, that was evidence enough to allow for seizure, via the copying of a hard drive, even though the Court said that such copying “is a serious invasion of privacy.”

http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/23013/if-you-call-yourself-hacker-does-automatically-imply-you-have-criminal-intent