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Wow, that's terrible. Was there something that instigated (not to imply that Kathy was somehow at fault) the harassment beyond "hurf durf there's a woman on th
by jmduke 13y ago
Wow, that's terrible. Was there something that instigated (not to imply that Kathy was somehow at fault) the harassment beyond "hurf durf there's a woman on the internet"?
- yareally 13y agoIt was never totally made clear what the people making the threats motives were, but most likely harassment because of her gender is considered the likely reason. http://onebyonemedia.com/the-sierra-saga-part-3-who-are-the-real-culprits-in-the-kathy-sierra-saga/ http://onebyonemedia.com/the-sierra-saga-part-3-who-are-the-...
- nthitz 13y agohttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html Weev has some curious quotes in this article “I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed. Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven!” and “The question we have to answer is: How do we kill four of the world’s six billion people in the most just way possible?”
- canadiancreed 13y agoYa that person needs a permanent stay in a rubber padded room. If they're not there already.
- sp332 13y agoHe's basically the least-sympathetic test case possible, but... the tech community is trying to set him free. For our own good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093468
- adamnemecek 13y agoYou do realize what's his 'profession' right?
- tlrobinson 13y agoWeev is currently in prison, so yeah pretty much, minus the padding. That said, the reasons for him being in prison are more disturbing than shit he's done over the years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT.26T_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT.26T_data_breach
- bkmartin 13y agoI see he has a cozy little room just up the road from my house. Allenwood low is an easy ride for a Federal Prison stay. So why is his reasons for incarceration more disturbing than the stuff he has done over the years? What I see is an intelligent guy, who could really do a lot of good if he could actually be civilly disobedient. But instead he chooses to go the antisocial way with some "moral highground". He played with fire, and he got burned. There are better, more respectful ways to be an activist and be an agent for change that would produce far more fruitful results.
- sp332 13y agoIt's disturbing because it's innocuous and downright common. AT&T published customer's personal information where they shouldn't have. Weev downloaded it, and he's the one in trouble? If you look at my link just below, you can see a lot of security researchers who are worried that this court decision just made their jobs illegal.
- gamblor956 13y agoWeev didn't just download the data, he released it without first telling AT&T about the flaw. If he had simply told AT&T the data was available, without deliberately violating the privacy of hundreds of thousands of people, he wouldn't be in a minimum security federal penitentiary right now. Weev is not one of the good guys. He acted deliberately, and that makes all the difference.
- sp332 13y agoWeev made the info easier to get, and I'm not saying he should have done it, but the info was already available publicly on the internet. This should have been a civil case where AT&T could get damages or something. Instead they outlawed "using a script to download data that someone accidentally posted to the web", which is insane.
- msutherl 13y agoThis article is unreal.