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Andrew Auernheimer ("weev") was sentenced to 3 and half years in jail for something that was (IMO) far more innocuous than this. Terrible move here. Not only
by georgemcbay 12y ago
Andrew Auernheimer ("weev") was sentenced to 3 and half years in jail for something that was (IMO) far more innocuous than this. Terrible move here.
Not only against the law, but this "hack" involves a highly likely creep factor for the person on the other end of it, not quite as creepy as walking into your house to find someone harmlessly hanging out in your living room, but in the same general ballpark.
To top it all off, it isn't even a technically difficult feat.
- boothead 12y agoweev... more innocuous? Are you fucking serious? http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point/ http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point/
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- georgemcbay 12y agoI've never met weev, but from his online writings and various actions reported by others he seems like a giant asshole. However, I wasn't commenting on his character, just the one specific action he was jailed for and how it compares to the events in this story. In that context, modifying URLs and resubmitting them seems way more harmless to me than spoofing your caller-id to gain access to a targeted individual's voicemail and change their outgoing message.
- Buge 12y agoHe wrote a bot to do the requests, they weren't manual, and he spoofed his user agent, it wasn't in-browser. He then shared some of the private email addresses with various news agencies.
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