right smart back in 2010 , a security breachexposed the emails of 114,000 iPad owner . Eventually , the hackersbehind it were pick up — and now one of them , Andrew Auernheimer , has been chance hangdog .
http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed
For Auernheimer , the charges have stuck : he now faces two five - year felonies for his efforts , Verge reports . But there ’s a little more to the story than you might expect . What ’s weird about this particular case is that Auernheimer did n’t really cut up anything . He did n’t steal passwords , or penetrate a database — and AT&T admitted as much during the hearing .
That of course makes him sound almost virtuous . In truth he wrote a script that harvested e-mail addresses from AT&T ’s website . Still , it ’s not clear how that counts as hack on .
In fact , as Verge points out , the case rests on the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act , which piss it illegal to “ get at a electronic computer without empowerment or surpass authorise approach ” on any “ protected computer ” . But that does n’t really make much sense these days , as Auernheimer himselfhas highlight . FromTech News Daily :
“ [ T]he ‘ protected computing machine ’ is any web computer . You access a protected estimator every day … have you ever received permission from Google to go to Google ? ”
As you ’d wait , Auernheimer isplanning to appeal . [ WIRED , Verge , Tech News Daily ]
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