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UK Facebook account hacker hit with 12-month prison sentence
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Following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Central e-Crime unit, 21-year-old Gareth Cross of West Sussex was sentenced to twelve months after hacking into a private Facebook account. In January 2011, Crosskey gained unauthorised access to the Facebook account of an individual including the private email function. The breach...
US Court: Code isn't property, therefore it can't be stolen
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New York's Second Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that computer code cannot be stolen after acquitting former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov. He'd been charged with property theft and economic espionage which carried an eight year prison sentence, but left court a free man after serving just a...
Infamous iPad Hacker Makes No Apologies As He Faces Jail Time
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Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the hacker who called attention to AT&T's poor security by releasing hundreds of thousands of iPad owners' email addresses, will be sentenced in a New Jersey court on Monday for computer crimes. Despite facing as much as 10 years in jail, he is unrepentant, he made clear...
Turkish pianist under investigation for ‘offending’ tweets about religion
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Fazil Say, a Turkish-born pianist and composer, is the latest Middle Eastern Twitter user to find himself targeted for statements made on the social network, reports the National Turk. Like his predecessors in Kuwait, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia, Say has been accused of making statements that are offensive to Islam, and as a result...
The U.S. Legal System And Its Chief Prosecutor Accused Of Contributing To Aaron Swartz's Death
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Did the authorities go in too hard against the Internet activist? The noise surrounding the death of Aaron Swartz is not abating. Four days after the Internet campaigner's body was found in his Brooklyn apartment, the New Yorker has accused the U.S. legal system of having failed the young...
Ever lied online? Good thing you weren't in Rhode Island
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Residents of the northeastern state can now tell fibs on the Internet without fear of a prison sentence -- thanks to lawmakers repealing an archaic law that made it a crime to lie online. [Read more]...
It’s Official: US Demands Extradition of Megaupload Suspects
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Last Friday, US prosecutors filed an extradition request against four New Zealand-based suspects who were allegedly part of the so-called “Mega Conspiracy.” Kim Dotcom is wanted in the United States alongside other key Megaupload employees on racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering charges. In the battle to extradite the defendants,...
Megaupload Co-Founder Released On Bail
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Following his arrest almost a month ago, the co-founder of the now-defunct Megaupload file-hosting service has finally been granted bail. Mathias Ortmann was expected to be freed following a January 26th hearing but that was delayed when information collected by the authorities on his finances fell short of Ortmann’s own...
AT&T 'hacker' and Internet troll sentenced to over three years
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Andrew Auernheimer, professional Internet troll, is a uniquely unsympathetic defendant. But even his detractors are protesting a 41-month prison sentence that a federal judge levied today. [Read more]...
Twitter user in Brazil gets prison sentence for 'inciting prejudice'
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After Brazil's president took office, a law student urged the killing of people in the region of the country who voted for her. Now, a federal judge ruled a prison sentence is in order. [Read more]...
Kuwaiti Twitter user arrested for blasphemous tweets, as MPs threaten to take matters into their own hands
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A man has been arrested in Kuwait for statements made on Twitter which have been deemed blasphemous, reports the state run Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA). According to KUNA, he made defamatory statements about Islam, slandering the Prophet Mohamed, his companions and wife. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior released a statement, saying...
Kuwaiti Twitter user arrested for blasphemous tweets, as MPs threaten to take matters into their own hands
AT&T Hacker Weev Is Live-Tweeting From Jail
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Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker also known as "Weev" who received a 41-month prison sentence for public shaming AT&T in 2010, appears to be live-tweeting his days at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC). His twitter handle, @rabite, sprang back to life on March 31 -- aka Easter Sunday -- with a notification...
You're calling that a troll? Are you winding me up? | James Ball
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Real trolling can have charm – a childish, even funny act of provocation. It's certainly never used to include vicious abuse"When I use a word,' said Humpty Dumpty to Alice, of Wonderland fame, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." The words of...
Ridiculous: Vietnam Sentences Musicians To Jail For Songs That Protest Government Actions
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We talk a lot about the importance of free speech here in the US, and worry tremendously about any efforts to chip away at such free speech rights. Even as we worry about how free speech issues are dealt with at home, we're very aware that most other countries have...
Suspected Anonymous Hong Kong member arrested for plotting government hacks
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Police in Hong Kong have arrested a 21-year old man who is believed to be affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group on suspicion of planning to take down a number of government websites, Channel News Asia reports. The man, whose name has not been revealed, was booked on Friday for...
Large Piracy 'Topsite' Trial Ends in Suspended Sentences, 'Disappointing' Damages
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‘Angel Falls’ was the name of a ‘warez topsite’, a system of servers used by higher-level Internet pirates. These sites often develop into a source from where all kinds of unauthorized digital media cascade down into the public Internet and file-sharing networks such as BitTorrent. Complaints were filed in September...
Four years jail for man who linked to TV streams
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An Englishman who allegedly made £250,000 ($392,000) operating a website linking to legally- and illegally-hosted TV shows and movies has been sentenced to serve four years in prison. Anton Vickerman was convicted earlier this summer not under copyright law but of “conspiracy to defraud”. He had profited from selling ads...
Hacker who infected 72K computers gets prison sentence
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Joshua Schichtel pled guilty for selling botnets to customers "who wanted to infect computers with various different types of malicious software." Now, he's serving a 30-month prison term. [Read more]...
Sheffield United suspend Connor Brown for comments made on rape case
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• Reserve team player posted tweets on the Ched Evans case• Rape charity complained to North Wales police over BrownSheffield United have suspended the reserve team player Connor Brown for posts he made on Twitter following his team-mate Ched Evans's jail sentence for rape.Brown, 19, responded to Evans's five-year prison...
Anonymous insider overstates org’s influence, calls Canada safe haven
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A high-ranking member of Anonymous recently revealed that the group has access to every classified database in the U.S. But what’s more interesting is the way Anonymous obtained this information. “Right now we have access to every classified database in the U.S. government. It’s a matter of when we...
PEGI video game ratings become law
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BBFC bows out as Pan European Game Information ratings system becomes legally enforceable in the UKRetailers that sell video games to children are now liable for imprisonment or a fine, under a tough new age-classification system designed to crack down on violent and unsuitable content.Under the new rules that came...
Another NYPD Terrorist 'Investigation' Turns Up Nothing But Privacy Invasions And Rights Erosion
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It's no secret that the "War on Terror" has resulted in little more than steady paychecks for those in the loop and plenty of rights erosion everywhere else. As was detailed earlier this year, the New York Police Department has decided to follow in the clumsy footsteps of the FBI's...
Can Facebook and Twitter do more to tackle trolling?
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A 22-year-old man's arrest over an offensive page set up after the deaths of two police officers does not mean that the law should wade in to tackle every offensive post or tweetSocial media brings out the worst in some of us. Why else would you set up a Facebook...
US Attorney General: Swartz case a "good use of prosecutorial discretion"
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United States Attorney General Eric Holder was grilled about the government's conduct in the Aaron Swartz prosecution at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) wrote Holder a letter in January asking Holder to look into the matter, and at the hearing he pressed Holder...
Key Galleon Witness Gets Probation
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Rajiv Goel, who a prosecutor said helped "more than any other cooperator" in the government's case against Galleon's Raj Rajaratnam, avoided a prison sentence....
Pirate Bay co-founder will be deported from Cambodia after arrest
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After being arrested this past weekend in Cambodia, The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg will be deported by Cambodian officials. “We will deport him based on our immigration law,” police spokesman Kirth Chantharith told Reuters. Because Sweden and Cambodia have no extradition treaty, it is unclear if Warg...
Eric Holder defends Aaron Swartz hacking prosecution
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Attorney general expresses sympathy for Swartz's family but tells senators the case was a 'good use of prosecutorial discretion'The US attorney general has defended the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the internet activist who killed himself after being targeted for hacking into the computer system of MIT.After Swartz's suicide in January,...
Yulia Tymoshenko appeal to be heard during Euro 2012
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Country delays trial of former Ukrainian prime minister after threats of a political boycott of the tournamentUkraine, threatened with a political boycott of the European football championship it co-hosts next month over the jailing of opposition politician Yulia Tymoshenko, has put off a ruling on her appeal until the tournament...
Bredolab Botnet Author Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison in Armenia
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The creator of the Bredolab malware received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia on Monday for using his botnet to launch DDoS (distributed denial-of-service)......
In The UK They Jail People For Being Obnoxious Jerks On Twitter?
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I recognize that the US tends to value "freedom of speech" more than most European countries, and I also recognize that racist hate speech is pretty despicable, but I have to admit that the reports out of the UK of a guy being put in jail for 56 days for...
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