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Weev Is Free
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- totalforge 13y agoCorrection based on article text: 'Weev To Be Freed'.
- michaelochurch 13y agoI bet that in 5 minutes someone will re-title this: "Memories of Weev".
- 2close4comfort 13y agomaybe AT&T should have protected those innocent people better...
- ceph_ 13y agoLet it be a reminder that you can go to jail for pointing out another party's negligence. Not saying weev is the poster boy for responsible disclosure, but how the situation was handled is troubling.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago>> "Let it be a reminder that you can go to jail for pointing out another party's negligence." Let it be a reminder that you can go to jail for exploiting another party's negligence.
- danielweber 13y agoThere is not a constant sum of guilt for the two parties; hust because one party is more guilty, it doesn't make the other party less guilty.
- 2close4comfort 13y agoIt goes to show that janky case law and deep pockets and make a person's world very bad. I will agree Weev approach didn't help his case very much either.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoAny bets on how long 'til he manages to cop a legit conviction for criminal harassment? He'd been lucky so far in that most of his trolling victims just wanted to hide under a rock rather than press charges.
- RankingMember 13y agoI wonder what the rationale was for him to be placed into solitary confinement.
- anaphor 13y agoProbably because he's pissed a lot of people off with his trolling in the past, so they figure he might not be safe for one reason or another? I mean he's pretty much a white supremacist. Edit: downvoter want to explain themself? I'm not lying, go read up on weev. I've known him from IRC for years and he is most definitely racist/bigoted, that doesn't make the CFAA charge right, it just explains why they put him in solitary.
- woof 13y agoMaybe he was an obnoxious asshat in jail too, pissing everybody of? Who knows? Who cares? Karma 'nuff said...
- er0k 13y agoIt was never really clear, but most likely for tweeting and posting to soundcloud from prison http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/hacker-andrew-auernheimer-has-been-placed-in-solitary-confinement-possibly-for-tweeting http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/hacker-andrew-auernheimer-h...
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- quackerhacker 13y agoHopefully the federal prison where he sat in solitary for months hasn’t beaten the zeal out of Weev. I doubt it. When I went away for hacking, mine was a camp, but I made 2 products in couple weeks right when I got out. It'll be interesting to see him hit the ground running (on a full system) and too see what he'll make...I coded on a (new at the time) iPhone 4 ;)
- ninv 13y agoIf you mess with biggest contributor.. you are going to end up in solitary confinement. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/13/the-10-biggest-corporate-campaign-contributors-in-u-s-politics/ http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/13/the-10-biggest-corpor...
- PhasmaFelis 13y ago"Zeal"? Fucking seriously? Ask Kathy Sierra what Weev's "zeal" adds up to. Weev was a test case for some shitty law. The shitty law lost, and that's good, but it doesn't magically make Weev a worthwhile human being, much less some kind of hero.
- mschuster91 13y agoSay, would weev be allowed to leave the USA? If yes, I would immediately do so if I were him.
- pyre 13y agoAllowed to leave? Probably (unless he's on probation). Able to leave? That's another question. Many countries will refuse entry if you are a convict.
- Bahamut 13y agoThis is sort of an aside, but I noticed this quote from weev: "I say this is the duty of all decent citizens left." I hope he is not implying that he is a decent citizen.
- greenyoda 13y agoMain discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573317 (70 comments)