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| Authored by: stegu on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 12:52 PM EDT |
He *changed* stuff in the address bar! *Nobody* ever does that, because that
stuff is *magic*, and *nobody* understands it. By editing things in the address
bar, he was fiddling in a domain (pun intended) where it is obvious that mere
mortals are not allowed entry. And by guessing those ID numbers instead of
knowing them, he was probably getting an error message saying "illegal
ID" several times. Yes, that's right, "illegal". And you say he
couldn't possibly know his actions were going to land him in prison? Pfft.
(No, I'm not being serious.)
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| Authored by: reiisi on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 05:07 AM EDT |
What weev did was extremely discourteous, but not really a crime in any sense
but a twisted reading of bad law.
AT&T is the obvious culprit here.
They are culpable for their improperly coded e-mail address database interface
which made no attempt to avoid reverse-searching.
That would not be so much a crime if it were not for the pre-existing condition
of the e-mail technology, in which we are using for technology a set of
erstwhile "best" practices that were only appropriate when most e-mail
users were both technically inclined and courteous.
Microsoft was the prime mover in promulgating those no-longer-best practices as
a communications technology standard. (And, having polluted the industry once
again, they again offer to "clean it up for us" with their incomplete
and misguided and easily abused alternative technologies. Repeated trying to
impose bad tech they can claim to own.)
AT&T (and the entire industry) tacitly collude with Microsoft in this.
As do we all, since we keep using it, which is why we shouldn't be sending
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