AT&T buys a conviction

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Malcolm
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After being hacked. Well, kind of.
Auernheimer, better known as “Weev,” and another hacker, Daniel Spitler, figured out that AT&T had placed iPad users' email addresses on pages that could be called up by anyone who had the correct URLs. (The URLs all began with the same block of characters but went on to include particular iPads' serial numbers.)

In short, he's going to be jailed potentially for visiting an unsecured web page and retrieving sensitive info. AT&T argues that because he didn't have permission to use their public website in that particular way, he's guilty of data theft. I'm sure politics had nothing to do with this.
Auernheimer and Spitler obtained around 114,000 e-mail addresses of iPad users, including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

Absolutely nothing.




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