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Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Faces Jail

45 点作者 mediagearbox大约 12 年前

12 条评论

eldr大约 12 年前
I wonder how he would be treated if he had picked up a stack of paper printouts an AT&T employee had left on a park bench and taken it to a news outlet in order to showcase AT&T's recklessness with customer information? Would Aaron Swartz's case have been handled the same way if he'd gone into a library and photocopied a whole heap of journal articles? The powers that be seem terrified that someone might use technology in a way which they can't control. Apart from the disgusting human rights abuse that these cases illustrate, I worry about the future when people like judges and prosecutors think it's at all fair or reasonable to put people in jail for freely accessing information.
Encosia大约 12 年前
It blows my mind that someone could get 10 years for idempotent operations on what was essentially a public API. Put in any other context than "scary computer hacking", it would be obvious to most people that the insecure system was at least as much to blame as this kid.
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DoubleMalt大约 12 年前
Every piece I read about him made me like him less.<p>But despite my deep feelings of antipathy the charges that are brought against him can NEVER warrant 10 years of prison.<p>That's ridiculous.
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rdl大约 12 年前
This sucks. weev is an asshole and troll, but he's also a friend, and he hasn't done anything a lot of other people don't do routinely. I hope he gets a suspended sentence, but I think the 50/50 is he'll get ~3 years in total, served at least 1.5y in a federal prison.
sergiotapia大约 12 年前
"In 2010, Auernheimer and a compatriot, Daniel Spitler, discovered that visiting an unsecured AT&#38;T Web server and entering a number associated with the customer's wireless account allowed him to obtain that customer's email address.<p>By altering the number and repeatedly querying the server, Auernheimer and Spitler were able to obtain hundreds of thousands of email addresses, which they then released to Gawker."<p>===<p>Amazing that something as simple as that landed him 10 years. This is something even I have done with some servers for telecoms in my country. And trust me, I'm no hacker. I just know basic HTTP GET request parameters, and what asshole doesn't know about those?<p>The laws in the US are terrible.
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arbuge大约 12 年前
It seems to that the real villain is AT&#38;T, for making this private data entrusted to its care freely available to the public. What criminal and civil liabilities will it face?
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rohern大约 12 年前
Here is a very good lecture on the state of cyber crime law. I recommend it to everyone in this community. Things are crazier than you are probably aware.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Z_z4EHq6M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Z_z4EHq6M</a>
nwh大约 12 年前
This website just showed a full page advertisement, then kicked me back to their home page when I clicked the continue button. Monumentally useless.
osamas_mama大约 12 年前
i love weev and i had a blast trolling with him back in the day but he's nothing like swartz. the biggest split being that swartz had good intentions whereas weev was having fun.<p>i don't think he should be imprisoned for exploring at&#38;t's god awful security but i also don't think he should be worshipped.
jrockway大约 12 年前
What exactly was he found guilty of?
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Nursie大约 12 年前
Yeah this is ludicrous. AFAICT, AT&#38;T effectively published this information to the web, this guy just pointed out where it was.<p>Not a crime.
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maeon3大约 12 年前
When everyone is a criminal all the time, with selective enforcement, it makes it easier to tax and control. When political winds shift, you can eliminate anybody you want, because you just make an excel spreadsheet of political enemies and then forward it by email to law enforcement for increased survallence, and whamo, felony convictions, how much you want? 1 year? 5 years? 10 years?<p>The government is just trying to maintain its power over the people, when federal reserve realizes there is no other alternative except to default on the US treasury, there is going to be a lot of unrest, and the internet will be a focus point of governmental rebellion, it's important everyone who accesses the internet is a felon. Especially the coders, like this one, who will be making the rebellion possible.<p>You got to put the fear in them. We may be the ones, like our founding fathers, who have to write up a new constitution, bill of rights, and spawn a new nation to break away from the defective one. Like the good men of old time broke away from Britain. The battlefield this time around will not be on the shores of Boston, the battlefield will be software, servers, clicks, and smart phones.<p>As with all battlefields, the side who wins is the one who prepares the most. This is why we are cracking down on website clicking by programmers, rather than cracking down on governmental corruption.
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