Posner agreed in a concurring opinion that "under the existing understanding of the Federal Wiretap Act Paula Epstein violated it if she searched her husband's computer for evidence of adultery by him that she could use against him in divorce proceedings, without having obtained his consent to her accessing his computer." But he added, "I don't understand why law should promote dishonesty and deception by protecting an undeserved, a rightly tarnished, reputation.