“The feds pushed criminal charges against him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for discovering a massive (and ridiculous) security hole in the way AT&T set up the iPad. The feds seemed to argue that this was some nefarious evil hack, and Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison and has to pay $73,000 to AT&T (roughly the cost it took AT&T to inform its customers of its own bone-headed lack of security). Nearly its entire argument against Auernheimer is that he ‘didn’t play by the rules’ where ‘the rules’ it’s talking about aren’t actual rules at all, but rather what the DOJ makes up in the minds of some clearly technologically-illiterate lawyers.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130929/15371724695/dojs-insane-argument-against-weev-hes-felon-because-he-broke-rules-we-made-up.shtml

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