How much do they need to understand? Say "unauthorized access happened, this lab is responsible for it, here are the fines". The state didn't need to understand networking tech to threaten Aaron Schwartz so why do they need to understand here?

Throw a bunch of them in jail for hacking and organized crime, and they'll self-regulate.

At this point we'd need to stop frontier labs to give law enforcement a chance to even begin to understand what they're looking at

So what? Are you positing that tech companies should be above the law?

Non-trillion-dollar tech companies get cease-and-desist orders from the legal system every day. Just because you're a tech company doesn't mean you get a pass.