Weev, Part 2

Malicious Life

Technology

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, long time critics of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, followed Weev's trial - but did not get involved. For the appeal, however, the organization decided to step it. But althought the EFF had some strong points against the CFAA - the justices, appearntly, had something very different on their mind.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Levy, was found guilty on two charges,
0:36.3	identity fraud and conspiracy to access a computer
0:39.8	without authorization.
0:42.1	He and Daniel Spittler, both members of Goatsey Security, a group equal parts security
0:48.1	research team and trolling association, had been arrested for breaching AT&T servers and stealing the email addresses of some
0:57.1	114,000 iPad users.
1:00.9	We've, unsurprisingly, saw things very differently.
1:04.9	In an interview with The Guardian, he rejected the notion that he had broken into anything
1:10.3	at all. Quote, I've had broken into anything at all.
1:11.4	Quote, I've never broken into anyone's computer.
1:15.2	We were accessing public resources.
1:17.7	It's like they printed a book and I flipped open the pages
1:20.8	and we criticized what they put in the book.
1:24.2	End quote.
1:25.3	For Weave, this wasn't hacking.
1:28.0	It was a public service.
1:30.2	He framed the incident as an act of digital activism, not a crime.
1:35.5	Writing on the Goatsey security blog, he explained their motivations.
1:39.7	Quote, this disclosure needed to be made.
1:43.1	iPad 3G users had the right to know that their email addresses were potentially public knowledge
1:49.9	so they could take steps to mitigate the issue, like changing their email address.
1:55.7	This was done in service of the American public, end quote.
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