Weev Is Free

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Weev Is Free | TechCrunch

Andrew “weev” Auernheimer is set to be released from federal prison, following a federal appeals court decision to reverse and vacate his conviction and sentence.

“I’m going to prison for arithmetic,” Weev declared last March. Shortly after, he was incarcerated in the federal prison system, charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same law that federal prosecutors were invoking against the late Aaron Swartz — a close friend of weev.

Auernheimer had been convicted of two consecutive five-year felonies.

In 2010, Weev found that AT&T had failed to protect 114,000 email addresses of iPad owners. He passed part of the list off to Gawker. AT&T later apologized and explained the flaw and data leak. However, where AT&T downplayed its massive security breach, Weev went to prison and was convicted under an ancient computer law in the state of New Jersey.

Today’s ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, not only overturns a lower court’s judgement, but also vacates the conviction. The three judges overseeing this appellate panel essentially sidestepped the hacking allegations and instead focused on the location of the trial.

GOOD SHIT!

 

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Great news. Sense prevails sometimes.

 

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Hacker 'Weev': 'Come Bring It, Federal Government'

Just days after his conviction and three-year prison sentence were overturned, hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer delivered a bold message on HuffPost Live: "Come bring it, federal government."

A New Jersey jury convicted Auernheimer in 2012 of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after he exposed a security flaw on an AT&T website, giving him access to the personal information of more than 100,000 iPad users. Prosecutors won their case by arguing that Auernheimer is an attention-seeking hacker who broke federal law by disclosing the security hole to a reporter at the gossip site Gawker.

Then last week, a federal appeals court dismissed the conviction, deciding that Auernheimer should not have been tried in New Jersey because the state has no connection to the case. Auernheimer was in Arkansas at the time and AT&T's servers were in Texas and Georgia.

Weev told HuffPost Live's Ricky Camilleri that it's "relatively likely" he'll be tried again in a different jurisdiction, but he refuses to take steps to avoid another trial.

"At this point, I've sacrificed three years of my life to overturn this unjust law, and I didn't do this to get a venue decision," he said. "The government should come litigate again. I'll risk prison again to do this once more. It's a terrible law."

 

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Nukka straight doesn't give a fuck. Whiteboy With Attitude. Wut.

 

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Also this fucked up

Auernheimer spent about half of his incarceration in solitary confinement, he said. The isolation was partially prompted by him calling a service from the prison's telephones that allowed him to record messages that were uploaded to the audio-sharing site SoundCloud, which he contends was within his free speech rights.

"They want me to sit down and shut up while they seditiously attack my rights and the rights of everybody else by proxy," he said.

The hacker added that the corrections staff made him suffer in other ways, including depriving him of gluten-free meals despite having celiac disease, a digestive disorder.