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 <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/ > > > > 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 > > > > 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 > > -- > INFILTRATE - the world's best offensive information security conference. > April 2013 in Miami Beachwww.infiltratecon.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > > > >
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