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And while Weev totally sucks as a person, IMO, it was wrong for him to be convicted in this case. He was punished from AT&T's negligence.
by exolymph 9y ago
And while Weev totally sucks as a person, IMO, it was wrong for him to be convicted in this case. He was punished from AT&T's negligence.
- leggomylibro 9y agoAlthough, not purposefully exfiltrating loads of data after you've found a vulnerability is like, ethical reporting 101. Otherwise you get situations like Uber paying out an enormous "bug bounty" totally-not-in-exchange for having their stolen data destroyed. If that person had simply pointed out that they had credentials published in a public repository, how much would they have been paid? Probably somewhere within an order of magnitude of the program's stated maximum payout.
- UncleMeat 9y agoPunk test. Advocacy groups are way less likely to want to turn your case into a test case if you are a racist asshole.