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LulzSec posts source code from Sony's Subversion repositories
- gte910h 15y agoWhile I'd be interested in knowing what got published, perhaps from a blog article, etc, I'm completely unwilling to download that file to find out.
- zbanks 15y agoAt the same time, this is an incredibly direct source. It's not a long-winded blog post that editorializes. Hopefully someone here can enlighten us, though.
- gte910h 15y agoOh definitely. Also definitely an illegal thing to download which will probably have court cases going after it and IP trolls fiercely finding who downloaded it, etc. I'm a big boy: I can ignore editorial commentary if I get to not commit a crime.
- GiraffeNecktie 15y agoHow could it be any more illegal than reading wikileaks?
- zbanks 15y agoTo download it, you (basically) are also sharing the file. It's as illegal as mirroring wikileaks.
- GiraffeNecktie 15y agoOh, you mean like these? http://boingboing.net/2010/12/03/wikileaks-blocked-bu.html http://boingboing.net/2010/12/03/wikileaks-blocked-bu.html
- derrida 15y agoMirroring Wikileaks is not illegal, First Amendment... highest law in the land.
- rabidsnail 15y agoCopyright is an exception, unfortunately.
- mquander 15y agoThe government's PR branch has really done a number on you. It's absolutely legal to host or mirror Wikileaks, under any reasonable interpretation of the law; remember that the only way that the government can dig up a case on Assange is to try to label him as a co-conspirator in directly obtaining the information. Just distributing the material is protected -- it's the same thing that newspapers do all the time. EDIT: On reflection, I shouldn't sound so confident, because I'm not a lawyer. But that's my understanding.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoIt does seem to be legal, for now. That doesn't mean that the US government is unwilling to, say, question you every time you fly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Investigation_and_Detainment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Investigation_a.... (Note that Jacob was more involved than simply running a mirror, though.)
- adambyrtek 15y agoIt's telling that even Hacker News users are so intimidated that they are afraid to click on a link. I find it surprising and a bit scary (but I don't live in the US).
- gte910h 15y agoDo you have days to spend talking to police and lawyers instead of working? I'd rather not. It's not 'clicking on a link' that's the issue, it's making a copy of sony's website's source code, which is very possibly a felony.
- shii 15y agoThis part of the reason why I suggested a way to quickly and easily upload dox from intrusions like this to be searchable and viewable online here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615226 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615226
- norova 15y agoCan't you just force outbound encryption and disable upload? You'd only be receiving the file, not redistributing it.
- redthrowaway 15y agoIt's only 54 mb, I can email it to you if you want. It's just a bunch of php with some xml. For example, here's admin_accesscontrol.php: http://pastebin.com/GSgdgeuT http://pastebin.com/GSgdgeuT
- gte910h 15y agoIt's not the size, but the legality of downloading copyrighted material in something that's surely going to be a criminal investigation.
- redthrowaway 15y agoFair enough. I highly doubt they'll target people who simply download the file, but then again I can afford to take that risk. Others may not be able to.
- lhnz 15y agoOkay, I'm kind of interested in finding out how bad the code really is now, but...
- sonnyz 15y agoIt's mostly just "TODO: FIX ME" every 10 or so lines.