<story><title>iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmanji</author><text>If anyone thinks weev deserves any sympathy, you don&apos;t know the full story. weev had malicious intent and wanted to harm AT&amp;#38;T by exposing users data. Instead of doing anything remotely rational he took all the data and wanted to sell it.&lt;p&gt;Laws take into account indent (mens rea) and there is a lot of evidence in his indictment that he wanted to profit off this act. He shouldn&apos;t be compared to Aaron Swartz</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I know weev personally.  He&apos;s &quot;an unsympathetic defendant&quot;, and probably the 9th level Internet Troll, but his goal was fundamentally speech -- he wanted to draw a lot of attention to the issue, and embarrass ATT (hopefully enough that they&apos;d stop being such fuckups about security), etc.&lt;p&gt;He wasn&apos;t trying to profit from this.  If that had been his goal, he would have been a lot more stealthy.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s arguable that he had &quot;cleaner&quot; motives in his act than aaronsw -- some people say aaronsw wanted to release all the files he recovered to the Internet (although there&apos;s no proof of that); weev just wanted ATT to suck less.&lt;p&gt;weev has &lt;i&gt;said&lt;/i&gt; things far worse than what&apos;s alleged in this case (that they wanted to compile a list and direct market the users); yet, if you judge him by what he&apos;s actually done, he&apos;s just an asshole at times, but basically reasonable.  Fortunately just being an ass isn&apos;t a federal crime (although I guess conspiracy to be an ass is).</text></comment>
<story><title>iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmanji</author><text>If anyone thinks weev deserves any sympathy, you don&apos;t know the full story. weev had malicious intent and wanted to harm AT&amp;#38;T by exposing users data. Instead of doing anything remotely rational he took all the data and wanted to sell it.&lt;p&gt;Laws take into account indent (mens rea) and there is a lot of evidence in his indictment that he wanted to profit off this act. He shouldn&apos;t be compared to Aaron Swartz</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyb09</author><text>Yeah but prison time, followed by secret service, not allowed to use computers, not allowed to take jobs... for what, compiling a list of email addresses that an public API was happily returning to him? Despite his questionable handling of the situation, I don&apos;t support that kind of draconian punishment.</text></comment>