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Andrew Auernheimer, aka Weev the grayhat security researcher and Internet antiblog troll was convicted for exposing a flaw in AT&T security which allowed the e-mail addresses of iPad users to be revealed.
The conviction was vacated Friday (2014/04/11) on the grounds of improper choice of venue, but the court commented anyway that "no evidence was advanced at trial" that "any password gate or other code-based barrier" was breached.The defendant's attorney, Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in an e-mail that a "retrial is barred by double jeopardy." If the authorities do seek a second trial, he said, "we will raise precisely that."
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Weev's Conviction Vacated by 3rd Circuit
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by davester666 on Saturday April 12 2014, @09:21PM
Yes, this is like a bonus for the prosecution. It's a giant do-over, so it doubles the cost for the defendant. The prosecution knows they have bogus charges, this about squishing somebody, so the next person knows not to annoy a big corporation.