4 Nov
2017
4 Nov
'17
2:54 a.m.
BTW, the one case I was thinking of when I wrote this is not even
documented anywhere. I can't find any reference to it whatsoever. It
happened around 1983/84.
So it's not only the public cases, there were ones that were swept under
the rug it seems. All the while, the defendant was threatened with 20-30
years in a federal prison, but eventually was given 10 years probation.
I knew the guy involved. It was an interesting time.
On 11/3/2017 3:26 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2017-11-03 9:11 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
Around the mid 80's,there was another case
where the DoJ was willing to
crush someone, not for causing a real disruption, but for getting into
the wrong places and reading the wrong things.
I'll keep the details out, but the prosecution of RTM might have been
more over the top because of preceding cases of hacking.
The DOJ brutality has
only got worse since then:
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/internet-own-boy-story-aaron-swartz/
--Toby