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What does "incrementing a GET request" mean?
As an example: Take a look at the URL of this page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261163 ). Add 1 to that ID value (45261164) in your address bar. Hit Enter, your browser will GET whatever exists at the next ID.
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It doesn't matter if you brute forced their crappy login with commonly-used credentials. You think it's OK for someone to rummage around in your garage just because they correctly guessed your keycode was 12345? Of course not.
I'm more focused on the assertion that "The CFAA isn't super complicated." Which raises sincere doubts about the commenter's credibility to make such a claim.
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> his overturned conviction only for wrong jurisdiction What are you getting at? If an appeals court says “wrong jurisdiction”, that’s an “rm -rf” on the whole entire case. There’s nothing left to argue about.
Yes there is, they can reargue the whole thing in another jurisdiction since he was never 'in jeopardy.' Considering he was convicted in another jurisdiction, and they can retry him in the 'right' one, why wouldn't a reasonable person anticipate that might happen? I don't think Weev is living in Ukraine/Transnistria to practice his Slavic languages. And the reason why I brought up it was overturned, was because I kne…
I think that the type of person that excels at software development would also excel at lawyering. But they should probably go to law school and pay attention in class.
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Since it seems to have been glossed over in the court transcript, can anyone explain how exactly a VM or client for remote VM could be used to bypass the monitoring? Wouldn't the monitoring software capture any application's network activities, including a client for a Remote VM? I'm imagining something like Wireshark?
A VM would bypass monitoring software installed on devices the person uses. A VPN would obscure their traffic such that it is encrypted and not easily monitored. Even something like SSH is encrypted and not straight-forward to monitor, so a VPN isn't required to do this anyway. A remote VM would combine both of these things, where the device/computer is in a location that isn't monitored and accessed by means aimed a…
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He was also placed under electronic monitoring program and immediately went about installing a VM to allegedly circumvent the monitoring software along with searching for a very controversial website relating to pedophilia... He also lied about using his computer, his wife told on him to his parole officer, according to the court documents. He was on parole for DDOSing* a former employer... *Ah, I see your update, gu…
“very controversial website related to pedophilia” -> you are referring to NAMBLA? if so, i think that is not uncommon search for people interested in history/wikipedia deep dives, i don’t think you would search this if you were actually a pedophile as it is a historical thing.
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OK, I think I found the original thing Rockenhaus was convicted of. Back in 2014, Rockenhaus worked for a travel booking company. He was fired. He used stale VPN access to connect back to the company's infrastructure, and then detached a SCSI LUN from the server cluster, crashing it. The company, not knowing he was involved, retained him to help diagnose and fix the problem. During the investigation, the company figu…
So the post is really click bait and does not tell the whole story?
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As an example: Take a look at the URL of this page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261163 ). Add 1 to that ID value (45261164) in your address bar. Hit Enter, your browser will GET whatever exists at the next ID.
Ok, that makes sense but why is this so serious? Is this a grave crime in some context?
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It gets worse... both the wife and (either their husband or a previous partner) have their own threads on kiwi farms and are closely tied to both Encyclopedia Dramatica and Ethan Ralph. There's videos posted of them showing signs of severe mental illness. https://0x0.st/KcyY.jpg
Saying this only because I'm probably speaking for a lot of people here, but: I have no idea what any of that means.
Oftentimes, kiwifarms users directly harass or manipulate their targets to try to provoke more weird behavior, usually directly making the target's life worse in the process.
I can see why it's entertaining for folk (kind of like watching reality television), but overall it seems to have a pretty negative effect. And if you hang out there too long, it seems like you tend to lose human empathy.
For whatever it's worth, the Reddit story here says that the federal courts used "fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again". Maybe! The other side of that story, via PACER, is a detailed parole violation warrant (you can hear the marshal refer to it in the video); the violations in that warrant: 1. Admitting to using cannabis during supervised release 2. Failing to make scheduled restitution payments and to coope…
We have to consider that crime on the internet is as real as crime in real life. Funny to say it out loud. Criminals move a certain way and just because you are a nerdy tech dude doesn’t also mean you’re not a gangster. Edit: Reminds me a lot of the lives of people in this saga: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01L8C4WBG/ The poor wife, “can you stop being a criminal for like, one month, please?”.
According to the court documents his crimes extended into “real life” as well, with intentional damage to his former employer to shut down their operations.
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No. He wasn't convicted of a cannabis offense. He was convicted of a fairly grave computer fraud/abuse claim, and part of the contract of his early release from federal custody was a set of terms that included monitoring and sobriety. He allegedly violated those terms, and you stipulate those violations here. Like any parolee, he's being put back into custody.
Why is that added, there's an agenda there. Why does "sobriety" matter in a computer crime? This is oppression and this (plus the other conditions) simple set up people like this for a fall.
The sobriety violation was against his parole terms. People on parole are required to remain sober as drugs like cannabis impair judgement.
He agreed to the parole terms and then violated them.
Regardless, you could strike the cannabis part from this completely and it wouldn’t change anything. He has numerous other parole violations.