This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
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Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#2Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#3Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
Throwing him in jail is an awful outcome for justice and for the precendent it sets. I'm very much hoping he walks out of court a free man. Once outside the court, he could get hit by a bus as far as I'm concerned.
When we want weev free, we're fighting for law and society, for just principles, not for the individual.
Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#4Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
He belongs in prison for a long time, but not for what he's currently being prosecuted for. It sets a terrible precedent, and I'm sure that, given his personality, he'll be prosecutable for something again soon enough.
Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#5Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
Sir Thomas More: What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#6Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
Throwing him in jail is an awful outcome for justice and for the precendent it sets. I'm very much hoping he walks out of court a free man. Once outside the court, he could get hit by a bus as far as I'm concerned. When we want weev free, we're fighting for law and society, for just principles, not for the individual.
I was with you up until wishing another human dead.
Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#7Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
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Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#8Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
Of course he deserves to be in jail, but he should be in jail under harassment and identity theft laws instead of the hacking charges.
Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#9Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
He did something equivalent to scanning a public bulletin board for information that AT&T put there through what seems like sheer incompetence. There does not seem to be any hacking involved unless you also classify google as an automated hacking engine. I feel bad that someone might get jail time and a felony conviction for crawling a public forum.
Re: This hacker might seem shady, but throwing him in jail is bad for everyone
#10Reading this article http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes... makes me feel not too terrible that he's being thrown in jail.
He belongs in prison for a long time, but not for what he's currently being prosecuted for. It sets a terrible precedent, and I'm sure that, given his personality, he'll be prosecutable for something again soon enough.
If memory serves, he was actually busted for drug possession not long after the gawker article went up, but he's not actually being prosecuted for that is he?