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> People have literally been imprisoned for years for using alternate tools, like wget, to access a website Source?
by NavinF 3y ago
> People have literally been imprisoned for years for using alternate tools, like wget, to access a website
Source?
- wahnfrieden 3y agoYou can Google it in a second. Aaron Swartz for instance faced up to 50 years. Weev (regardless of the nazi scum that he is) went to jail for it.
- hedora 3y agoThere's very little chance he would have lost in court. Obviously, there can be extrajudicial consequences though.
- jprete 3y agoHaving to go to court in itself and spend literally months or years with the possibility of being sentenced to most of the rest of your life in prison is itself a very severe punishment.
- NavinF 3y agoI asked because I did google it and I found nothing. Aaron Swartz was not "imprisoned for years". Weev "exposed a flaw in AT&T security in June 2010, which allowed the e-mail addresses of iPad users to be revealed.[39] The flaw was part of a publicly-accessible URL, which allowed the group to collect the e-mails without having to break into AT&T's system.[40] Contrary to what it first claimed,[41] the group revealed the security flaw to Gawker Media before AT&T had been notified,[40] and also exposed the data of 114,000 iPad users, including those of celebrities, the government and the military" That's a pretty silly security breach, but it's still a real security breach. Not comparable to scraping twitter
- superkuh 3y agoWeev has attacked by AT&T who then had him imprisoned for years for using wget instead of a browser to access a public website of theirs. https://www.wired.com/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-years/ https://www.wired.com/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-years/