[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]god some of you people are such failures at life, he took papers on how to enrich uranium build a better nuclear bomb, missile technology to deliver it and other things to power and build not only nukes but rail guns and other stuff and then he distributed it all over the world, including to iran and china and north korea, pakistan, afganistan, iraq andthe muslim brotherhood as well as al queda, that was treason punishable by immediate death to be carried out by any officer of the united states no trial required.be glad they were letting him run free and taking him to court on LESSER charges18 USC § 2381 - TreasonWhoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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/www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381 Vol. 2, No. 13 of Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries published in October 1994, Cooper wrote, “Since we are informed that these black ninja [federal government] helicopters do not in fact exist, we may infer that if you shoot one down it does not count.”that can be interpreted many ways, but the last time i heard that used was against a spy for another country caught trying to walk out with some classified material from a federal institution as guards were pointing a weapon at the spy and a dog was pinning the spy to the ground.that was before NDAA. anon is made up of people not protected by the american constitution any ways since alot of them are foreigners.[/citation]
Holy crap, where are you getting this information? You are so incredibly misinformed I don't even know where to begin and I highly doubt it'll be worth my time anyway because it'll go against your pre-conceived ideology regarding this matter that is clearly tainting your view.
JSTOR articles are extremely easy to access for anyone its hardly like you're getting into some super secret database of doomsday device plans. Hell, all you (or any terrorist/communist/muslim boogeyman you can imagine) has to do is go to a public university that offers public access to it and you're in, for free. All the charges he was facing was due to the fact he abused his access (he actually was a legitimate user before he started using a webspider) and violated ToA. The gov't used that violation of ToA to classify him as an unauthorized user and thus a hacker (his 'hacking' was barely hacking anyway, he spoofed a mac address and plugged into a network jack). JSTOR's opinion on the entire matter was to ban him and basically say 'don't do it again, we aren't PACER'.
Everything he was charged with related to the CFAA, there were absolutely no terrorism, treason or any such other charges, which you can easily verify by looking at the publicly available indictments (not to mention that the doomsday scenarios you mention about uranium purification, rail guns, et al are hardly super secret technologies at this point, especially to China). Besides, I'm sure someone bent on blowing up things with nuclear bombs probably already has a subscription to
Science and
Nature (and the other relevant journals) and has access to this info already. Considering building a functional doomsday weapon is at least a multi-billion dollar project, the 200 $/yr subscriptions for relevant journals are probably within the budget.
This isn't the first time the gov't has used the ToA to go after someone with felony charges, technically, using a pseudonym on myspace violates ToA, making you an unauthorized user (which the gov't can and
has used to pursue felony charges).
Now, to ask if what he did was wrong? oh hell yeah it was. After they kicked him off the first time he spoofed his mac address (basically like making a new account on a forum you've been banned from) and did it again. They booted him again and he went into a network closet, plugged directly into a network jack and proceeded to do it again. Pretty clearly, after he did it the first time he was in the wrong for doing it again, and he was really in the wrong for plugging into the network closet (which he knew since he covered his face). I guess his success with the PACER free access emboldened him to do it with JSTOR. He definitely should have spent some time in jail, for trespassing, but all of the CFAA 13 felonies crap is nonsense considering it's a publicly accessible system.
Maybe the gov't should spend more time focusing on HSBC and it knowingly laundering Mexican drug cartel money or the LIBOR manipulations that have been going on since the late 1990s and costing us trillions of dollars. After it gets those things out of the way maybe we can start going after some of the American companies who have been violating the Iran embargo via subsidiaries to the tune of $100B over the last decade helping them to develop oil, gas
and nuclear technologies. Maybe, just maybe, after that, and a few other things, we can start worrying about hackers downloading publicly funded academic articles.
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