'Weev' Auernheimer's Hacking Conviction Overturned

[Guest]

A federal appeals court threw out the conviction of Andrew 'Weev' Auerheimer, a hacker in prison for scraping data from a public website.

'Weev' Auernheimer's Hacking Conviction Overturned : Read more

 

[derekullo]

"Cybercrimes do not happen in some metaphysical location that justifies disregarding constitutional limits on venue," the court said in its decision. "People and computers still exist in identifiable places in the physical world."

Hack bank using virtual server

Feds spend millions of dollars figuring out what a virtual server is ...

 

[Pailin]

Nice to hear something ending right.

Should never have gone to court in such a way either!



Daniel "JacksonBrown" Spitler must feel like a complete arse right now -.-"

 

[Minister of Truth]

"unclear" indeed, sheesh.

and Weev has done 41 months SO FAR on this?!

But, hey, hackers! And that includes you, the former Bradley Manning who walked off an Army base w/ electronic reams classified material,

be secretive! Manning got abt 35 yrs in prison, upheld on appeal.

But Snowden is free.

Don't get carried away w/ your prankster/court-jester image of yourselves,

The System doesn't see you that way.