Ars Technica reports Hacker "weev" demands bacon following prison release
Auernheimer was in prison for obtaining and disclosing personal data of about 140,000 iPad owners from a publicly available AT&T website.
[Submitter's Comment: As a member of this site, I too demand bacon.]
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(Score: 2, Funny) by NickM on Wednesday April 16 2014, @09:19PM
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hatta on Wednesday April 16 2014, @09:29PM
Weev, who probably deserves to be in prison, was imprisoned for something that no one should go to prison for. He was released, not because he's innocent of what they claimed he did, or because the bad law was unconstitutional or interpreted incorrectly, but merely due to a paperwork error.
So the precedent stands that requesting data from a website without any form of authentication is a violation of the CFAA. Every single one of us commits the same act weev did every time we visit a website. The only thing standing between us and prison is the good will of the people whose website we visit. All they have to do is say "we forgot to set the permissions on that" and you're a hacker. What a fiasco.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mrcoolbp on Wednesday April 16 2014, @09:50PM
I agree, simply accessing the information shouldn't be illegal. Having it publicly available should be illegal (fault of AT&T). I think the part about "disclosing personal data" was where this guy went wrong to be honest.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2) by hatta on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:23PM
I think the part about "disclosing personal data" was where this guy went wrong to be honest.
Free speech is protected by the First Amendment.
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Tuesday April 22 2014, @05:10PM
If that were really true why are non-disclosure agreements legal?
(Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Wednesday April 16 2014, @10:09PM
It wasn't a paperwork error. They conducted the trial in New Jersey instead of Arkansas to get a conviction from their court of choice.
compiling...
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:12AM
NJ, you say?
what exit?
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 16 2014, @09:38PM
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:57AM
This isn't offtopic. It's a direct quote from weev in the video linked in the article. But I guess RTFA is too much for moderators.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by poutine on Wednesday April 16 2014, @09:44PM
Seriously. Give coverage to his case, cases like his, but don't give _him_ the attention he seeks. He's a miserable piece of shit and he's a drugged out idiot.
(Score: 2, Redundant) by Blackmoore on Wednesday April 16 2014, @09:48PM
Frankly I was just giving bacon my attention.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by ilPapa on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:30PM
Hey now. Drugged-out idiots need bacon too, you know.
Maybe especially.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 17 2014, @12:44AM
Yeah, we here in our righteous circle-jerk don't tolerate reading articles about drugged-out idiots, we're too busy reading about bacon and being willingly molested by Theo De Raadt as we take turns sucking Larry Wall's throbbing perly-white cock.
And the news outlets should start censoring school shooters, you know, so they don't get attention (and so people don't have to think about it). It's for your own good.
Poutine--
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday April 17 2014, @01:34AM
Offtopic: neither contains bacon, nor an insult.
Did you mean putain<--?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 16 2014, @09:49PM
Lots of people demand bacon all the time. How is this news? Are we really this desperate for stories?
(Score: 1) by el_oscuro on Wednesday April 16 2014, @10:12PM
SolentNews is bacon!
SoylentNews is Bacon! [nueskes.com]
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:14AM
"go away!
bat^Hcon!"
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 1) by bacon on Thursday April 17 2014, @10:36AM
Correction - Bacon is on SoylentNews!
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Koen on Wednesday April 16 2014, @10:22PM
I really don't get why bacon is a meme on this site.
If it were Roger Bacon [wikipedia.org] or Francis Bacon [wikipedia.org] I would understand, but a piece of Pork?
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(Score: 0) by dast on Wednesday April 16 2014, @10:29PM
Does tasty pork require justification? I think not.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Koen on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:01PM
Taste is far from universal.
The bacon subject keeps coming up and that's not why I read this site: to me it is just noise (we were so proud about our S/N ratio, right?) or even trolling.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by snick on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:13PM
Boy, somebody needs some bacon.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Koen on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:37PM
If that is informative then I obviously don't belong here.
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 17 2014, @04:08AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 17 2014, @07:26AM
Well, maybe he prefers hot grits. Then he could go back to Slashdot.
(Score: 1) by joshuajon on Thursday April 17 2014, @01:20PM
The modding system is still experiencing some growing pains.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:38PM
Some of the readers here are probably vegan or vegetarian -- I'm in the middle between full on carnivores and vegetarians in that I don't eat mammals (I do give Octopi honorary mammal status). Anyway, it's been many years before I felt the faintest craving for overly salted, smoked strips of fat. Bacon is an acquired taste that I've totally lost.
Instead of bacon, why not something with broader appeal, like pie. Cherry pie with a nice flakey homemade crust (not one of those overly salty mealy storebought things) -- I could totally get into cherry pie, I'm sure the bacon lovers could too, and the vegans and vegetarians have their own versions they love too.
Plus there's a stupid pun to make with pie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 17 2014, @12:47AM
I got into your mom's pie last night. We were bac'n all night long.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday April 17 2014, @03:37AM
I was thinking of 3.14159....
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 17 2014, @01:08AM
You may be able to fuck a pie, but you can't slaughter a pie. And the slaughter's what makes real meat like beef and pork tasty.
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:09AM
If you had have said "bacon pie", then I could have got onboard with that
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Thursday April 17 2014, @05:18AM
Vegetarians, sure, but not vegans. You need butter to make a good pie crust - vegetable fats just don't cut it.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 17 2014, @05:43AM
(see? Can't please everyone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday April 17 2014, @05:54AM
Damn you, now I want bacon and pie.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday April 17 2014, @02:17AM
the bacon subject does keep coming up.
I think there should be equal time for the bacon verb.
how to conjugate the verb 'to bacon':
I bacon
you bacon
he/she/it bacons
we bacon
you bacon
they bacon
its pretty simple.
you might even say, the bacon is quite regular. ...
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday April 17 2014, @03:13AM
I disagree, I would say it's defined by it's similarities, especially when it comes to high end food. Most people agree on weather a dish is good, bad, too salty or whatever. When it comes to high end chefs, even chefs from different disciplines will tend to agree if something is too this or too that, and same goes for the judges on Masterchef (I'm Australian btw, we have our own). Some people develop peculiar likes and dislikes, and others are born with unusual distributions of olfactory receptors, but overall it amazes me how much people like the same things.
Even people that don't like Maccas have usually got a problem with the quality, it's not that they don't like burgers. Someone actually said to me the other day "I don't like spices but I love curry". Doesn't even know what he likes!
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday April 17 2014, @05:48AM
Would you prefer people pouring hot grits down their pants? :-)
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday April 16 2014, @11:31PM
a piece of Pork?
Must be a government thing.
(Score: 2) by hybristic on Thursday April 17 2014, @12:09AM
If you were present in the IRC early on, you would understand it a bit better. I honestly do not remember how it got started, but once it did....well...you can see where it's lead us.
(Score: 2) by Marneus68 on Thursday April 17 2014, @07:37AM
This is another reminder that we NEED a bacon category and icon !
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Thursday April 17 2014, @08:06AM
while (--bacon);
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