Re: Weev's collateral damage.

[Ali-Reza Anghaie <ali () packetknife com>]

Entirely agreed - and while all occupations are at risk for
over-criminalization, InfoSec is also at an intersection point with major
political narrative. Like many Academics were put at risk right after 9/11
for research that had always been in the public eye.

It's worth your time to read the book and blog work of Harvey Silverglate:

http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx
http://www.harveysilverglate.com/TheSilvergLatest/TFD.aspx

Cheers, -Ali



On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:

>  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/
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>
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> So I'm no fan of Weev aka Andrew Auernheimer. The man is seriously
> disturbed and it's odd to see people support him<https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/271067146145107968>
>
> on Twitter. Just as an example, here's some bizarre rape porn I'm fairly
> sure he and his friends posted about my wife on full disclosure (and to DD
> before it was moderated - in fact, Weev is the reason moderation is on this
> list at all):
> http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-March/043638.html
>
> . Here's a post about him torturing some kid "for the lulz":
> http://crimint.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/deutschland-deutschland-uber-alles-encyclopc3a6dia-dramatica-forums_1294380601283-chrome.png
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>
>
> I think it's fair to say the likelihood of Weev having done something that
> deserves some level of criminal liability is pretty high. That said, this
> is not it. Keep in mind the data Weev collected was email addresses and
> names. Nothing sensitive in the slightest. Everything they collected was
> essentially sent in cleartext over the Internet at some point.
>
> It's obvious to anyone with any technical background that the case the FBI
> brought against him is a travesty, and the fact that they won is even more
> insane. It's this sort of thing that makes it obvious the DHS doesn't
> understand the Internet, and shouldn't be given more control over it, which
> is what John McCain has been saying for the last year or so. Cases like
> this make everyone look bad - and if they manage to make it stick, the
> collateral damage is all of us.
>
> -dave
>
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