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So, this morning Andrew "weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison plus 3 years probation for "hacking AT&T".

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Mar 18 '13, 09:21

What he did would not rate higher than a Gibson Level One Event. US justice system is stuck in some Reaganesque alternate timeline when it comes to computer "crime", kowtowing exclusively to corporations that can't admit to their own fuckups.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/18/andrew-auernheimer-aka-the-att-hacker-sentenced-to-41-months-in-prison-3-years-probation-and-restitution-of-73k/ (techcrunch.com)

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To be fair, he's hardly a paragon of virtue ... but the facts of the case as I know them are absolutely ludicrous from a computer science perspective. - Beryllium Mar 18, 09:24
the one-tweet summary -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 18, 09:21 1
- He isn't going to prison because he added 1 to a web address, but because he then stole info on 114,000 users. - TWuG Mar 18, 09:25

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So, this morning Andrew "weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison plus 3 years probation for "hacking AT&T".

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