How the f–– do federal prosecutors charge someone for “hacking” what’s publicly available? What next, tossing some of us in jail for using a raw resource address to download some Twitter video in, like, 2015?
The clips, which included unaired, antisemitic remarks by Kanye West, were published by Vice and Media Matters.
if it makes a tampa area fedsoc AUSA mad because it makes Fox News look bad, then yes, using a raw resource address to download some Twitter video in, like, 2015 will be prosecuted
News gathering is in the sh*tter while hard-right propaganda outlets push the country toward delusion and fascism — so the DOJ chooses to make itself the propagandists’ errand boys? Make it make sense.
The CFAA is an absolute shit sandwich of legislation that can be used to prosecute basically any computer use a company doesn't like.
Pretty much, yeah. "You used a computer to do something that someone didn't want you to do" is what Aaron Swartz was charged with, because Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has been interpreted to cover all computers full stop.
Sounds like a Russian op to me.
Well, either the Feds are overreaching wildly or somebody's lying. Or both.
I remember someone was charged a few years ago for accessing something that was literally in a webpage’s HTML comments. clicking “view source” in your browser is considered hacking now. and iirc the tech illiterate judge sided against them
If things are as described by the defense, it sounds like an easy dismissal.
I recall another case some years ago where the defendant ended up committing suicide because of the level of hatred and abuse thrown at him by so many. All because he used publicly available information from a library that made some people look ridiculous.
There is without a doubt someone in the DOJ sympathetic to FOX/Murdoch, that is how. I have personally worked with the feds on computer crime, and that is all I can say about it. Nobody qualified to investigate this would say there was a case here. So it must have come from the top.