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March 18, 2013 01:29 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/iBLFK5-3orQ/weev-sentenced-to-41-months-fo.html
Weev sentenced to 41 months for exposing AT&T security flaw
Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for figuring out a security flaw in AT&T's website, writes Matt Brian. The "hack", which exposed iPad users' email addresses, involved entering serial numbers into a publicly-accessible web form. While one journalist lamented that prosecutors "admitted they didn't understand computers", court documents also showed [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/iBLFK5-3orQ/weev-sentenced-to-41-months-fo.html
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