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Was this posted in an attempt to compare his struggles to Aaronsw or what?
by nthitz 14y ago
Was this posted in an attempt to compare his struggles to Aaronsw or what?
- fleas 14y agowas wondering why this is surfacing now myself ? I think I had just upgraded FreeBSD 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 when I first read about KM.. sigh* slashdot had KM headlining daily no need to relive the pre-google era on HN!
- jasonzemos 14y agoIt's definitely relevant now that we've drawn attention to the draconian federal technology statutes. The Mitnick case is the best example of ignorant paranoia corrupting the common law precedent and the slack it's given to the justice bureaucracy. It would be an err to consider their acts morally or legally equivalent though.
- bascule 14y agoI think weev's case is a lot more similar to Aaronsw than Kevin Mitnick's. weev is accused of more or less the same thing as Aaronsw: downloading files off a server, except unlike Aaronsw in weev's case the files were accessible to anyone on the Internet. Kevin Mitnick, on the other hand, was accused of things like wire fraud and tapping people's phones. Unlike Aaronsw, both of these guys are kind of assholes.