AT&T 'Hacker' Weev Released From Prison Tuesday Apr 15 2014 09:16 EDT Back in June of 2010, you might recall that a security hole in AT&T's website allowed two individuals to gain access to the e-mail addresses of 114,000 owners of 3G Apple iPads, including "dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians." A group calling itself Goatse Security at the time claimed responsibility for the "hack," which in addition to e-mail addresses resulted the group obtaining user ICC-IDs -- used to identify their specific iPad on the AT&T network. One of those two individuals responsible for obtaining the data was Andrew Auernheimer (aka "Weev") an Internet-famous troll who was recently convicted of accessing a computer without authorization and identity fraud, and sentenced to serve 41 months in prison. The problem? What Weev did technically wasn't hacking since AT&T's door was left wide open, something even prosecutors recently made very clear they didn't actually understand. Last Friday Weev was released from prison. Not because the law realized and acknowledged what he did wasn't hacking, but because the court declared he should have been tried in his home state of Arkansas, not New Jersey. Law enforcement have yet to state whether or not they'll be seeking a retrial, though it's highly unlikely this particular story is over. |
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ughWorst argument yet.... : "The problem? What Weev did technically wasn't hacking since AT&T's door was left wide open, something even prosecutors recently made very clear they didn't actually understand. "
Definition of hacking (google defintions) "use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system."
Was this clown authorized to have this data? No. Did he use a computer to access it? Yes.
Pretty much the definition of hacking.
And using the "door was open" is the worst argument ever.... it's like saying someone didn't commit grand theft auto because it was unlocked with the keys in it. | |
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