I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet.
This helps to fill in some of the details. It's a really nice story showing the humanity that can be found in situations when you look close.
This helps to fill in some of the details. It's a really nice story showing the humanity that can be found in situations when you look close.
That's miles away from "largely law enforcement" though. I talked to an FBI agent at PyCon but people aren't claiming it's a LEO convention.
A generation of hackers (specifically, the vBulletin generation) stayed as far away from the CFAA as possible after that fiasco, which I suspect is exactly the chilling effect that the DOJ intended.