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mattdotc

>the AT&T case where someone accessed records on public URLs

For those not in the know, that someone was weev [1].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT.26T_data_breach

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That somebody was Jackson Games in 1993 somewhat earlier:

http://www.sjgames.com/SS/topten.html

(Not quite public URLs as the WWW was quite new at the time, but public information all the same.)

Weev is a dick, but what he did in that specific case shouldn't have been a interpreted as a crime, and I would have preferred his conviction be overturned on that basis, rather than the venue issue.

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