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Does anyone know what came of this awful cyber terrorist? Given what we wanted to do Aaron Swartz, and what we are going to do to Weev, this guy should be facin
by lawnchair_larry 14y ago
Does anyone know what came of this awful cyber terrorist? Given what we wanted to do Aaron Swartz, and what we are going to do to Weev, this guy should be facing capital punishment by comparison.
Edit: Haha, downvoted already. I'm kidding of course. I am a fan of rtm, and the eponymous worm.
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- DanBC 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5078424 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5078424 Swartz, RTM, sure, but Weev? You can't seriously put weev in that list.
- lawnchair_larry 14y agoYou can put him in that list only if you look at his crime objectively, and divorce that from the person you don't like. Which is an important thing to do when handing out justice. Downloading and deleting a list of emails is not worse than spreading an internet-crippling worm. Nobody can make that argument with a straight face.
- nailer 14y agoRTM cracked others computers and installed software, deliberately, to satisfy his curiosity. HN being fans of his probably is YC related. Most old-school Unix guys I know think of RTM as an selfish immature kid. Schwartz broke into a single server cabinet room, and didn't no anything malicious with that access. Instead he tried to liberate some documents in the public domain that everyone else could benefit from. So yes, I'm glad RTM was punished: he wasn't an activist who downloaded too many public domain documents through altruistic intent, he was a guy who hurt a lot of people out for his own personal desire.