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Bradley Manning and the "Hacker Madness" Scare Tactic

• chmars 13y ago
  'In the Manning case, the prosecution used Manning’s use of a standard, more than 15-year-old Unix program called Wget to collect information, as if it were a dark and nefarious technique. Of course, anyone who has ever called up this utility on a Unix machine, which at this point is likely millions of ordinary Americans, knows that this program is no more scary or spectacular (and far less powerful) than a simple Google search. Yet the court apparently didn’t know this and seemed swayed by it.' Our legal system needs for IT competence …