Anonymous hacks into U.S. Sentencing Commission website

[hanselthecaretaker]

Hackers take over sentencing commission website - Yahoo! News


Idk, from the sounds of it this activist wasn't up to much good either, posting millions of court documents and illegally downloading millions of academic articles.

If true, how are Anonymous not equally guilty in thinking they and everyone else are entitled to whatever they want. Maybe there's more to it.

 

[nefertiti]

Hackers take over sentencing commission website - Yahoo! News


Idk, from the sounds of it this activist wasn't up to much good either, posting millions of court documents and illegally downloading millions of academic articles.

If true, how are Anonymous not equally guilty in thinking they and everyone else are entitled to whatever they want. Maybe there's more to it.

He didn't illegally download academic journals....in the words of what was to be one of the expert witnesses in his trial,

"If I had taken the stand as planned and had been asked by the prosecutor whether Aaron’s actions were “wrong”, I would probably have replied that what Aaron did would better be described as “inconsiderate”. In the same way it is inconsiderate to write a check at the supermarket while a dozen people queue up behind you or to check out every book at the library needed for a History 101 paper. It is inconsiderate to download lots of files on shared wifi or to spider Wikipedia too quickly, but none of these actions should lead to a young person being hounded for years and haunted by the possibility of a 35 year sentence."

I'm not of the opinion that everyone has the right to know everything, but this particular case against his was flimsy and had generated a large amount of backlash, even in congress.

As far as the other - the court documents he posted were available to anyone, just at .08 per page - but he obtained all of them during a time when it was all available through a free trial and no charges were ever filed.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

He didn't illegally download academic journals....in the words of what was to be one of the expert witnesses in his trial,

"If I had taken the stand as planned and had been asked by the prosecutor whether Aaron’s actions were “wrong”, I would probably have replied that what Aaron did would better be described as “inconsiderate”. In the same way it is inconsiderate to write a check at the supermarket while a dozen people queue up behind you or to check out every book at the library needed for a History 101 paper. It is inconsiderate to download lots of files on shared wifi or to spider Wikipedia too quickly, but none of these actions should lead to a young person being hounded for years and haunted by the possibility of a 35 year sentence."

I'm not of the opinion that everyone has the right to know everything, but this particular case against his was flimsy and had generated a large amount of backlash, even in congress.

As far as the other - the court documents he posted were available to anyone, just at .08 per page - but he obtained all of them during a time when it was all available through a free trial and no charges were ever filed.

That puts a different perspective on it, thanks.