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Weev Is Free

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Hopefully the federal prison where he sat in solitary for months hasn’t beaten the zeal out of Weev.

I doubt it. When I went away for hacking, mine was a camp, but I made 2 products in couple weeks right when I got out. It'll be interesting to see him hit the ground running (on a full system) and too see what he'll make...I coded on a (new at the time) iPhone 4 ;)

If you mess with biggest contributor.. you are going to end up in solitary confinement.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/13/the-10-biggest-corpor...

"Zeal"? Fucking seriously? Ask Kathy Sierra what Weev's "zeal" adds up to.

Weev was a test case for some shitty law. The shitty law lost, and that's good, but it doesn't magically make Weev a worthwhile human being, much less some kind of hero.

Correction based on article text: 'Weev To Be Freed'.

I bet that in 5 minutes someone will re-title this: "Memories of Weev".

I wonder what the rationale was for him to be placed into solitary confinement.

Probably because he's pissed a lot of people off with his trolling in the past, so they figure he might not be safe for one reason or another? I mean he's pretty much a white supremacist.

Edit: downvoter want to explain themself? I'm not lying, go read up on weev. I've known him from IRC for years and he is most definitely racist/bigoted, that doesn't make the CFAA charge right, it just explains why they put him in solitary.

Maybe he was an obnoxious asshat in jail too, pissing everybody of? Who knows? Who cares?

Karma 'nuff said...

It was never really clear, but most likely for tweeting and posting to soundcloud from prison

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/hacker-andrew-auernheimer-h...

Say, would weev be allowed to leave the USA?

If yes, I would immediately do so if I were him.

Allowed to leave? Probably (unless he's on probation). Able to leave? That's another question. Many countries will refuse entry if you are a convict.

This is sort of an aside, but I noticed this quote from weev: "I say this is the duty of all decent citizens left." I hope he is not implying that he is a decent citizen.

Main discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573317 (70 comments)

maybe AT&T should have protected those innocent people better...

Let it be a reminder that you can go to jail for pointing out another party's negligence. Not saying weev is the poster boy for responsible disclosure, but how the situation was handled is troubling.

>> "Let it be a reminder that you can go to jail for pointing out another party's negligence."

Let it be a reminder that you can go to jail for exploiting another party's negligence.

There is not a constant sum of guilt for the two parties; hust because one party is more guilty, it doesn't make the other party less guilty.

It goes to show that janky case law and deep pockets and make a person's world very bad. I will agree Weev approach didn't help his case very much either.

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