That's just concern troll nonsense, or what someone who'd never heard of software would say. It's easier to download a range of IDs than to guess which ones are

That's just concern troll nonsense, or what someone who'd never heard of software would say. It's easier to download a range of IDs than to guess which ones are valid. And "three email addresses leaked - hacker claims more could be at risk" is pathetic and you know it would be ignored. By the company, by the news, and ultimately, by users. Also, there's a fallacy here. You admit it's reasonable to download, leak, etc, but then make it seem unreasonable because he did too much of it. The joke of it though, is that ultimately you-all can piss and moan about your convenient morals, but what Weev should have done - by your "anything legal is A-OK" standards - is to emigrate to Russia (or elsewhere) and sell the data to a local "security firm". Then he'd have been rich, and safe, and AT&T would either be secure or out of business. But instead he did the honest thing (and inconvenienced a wealthy corporation in doing so) and suffers greatly. Next time, zero-day through Tor. Just saying.