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Brian West Update

Posted by michael on from the following-through dept.

Concerned Onlooker writes: "Remember the story about how Brian West reported a security leak to a client of a competing hosting service and then was promptly arrested by the FBI? Well, as usual there's more to the story, as shown in this release that I got today from Sheldon Sperling of the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Sorry about the Word-generated HTML. It's just nice to follow up on what outraged many of us at the time...." West has pled guilty to a misdemeanor offense.

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  1. He is a terrorist by ksw2 · · Score: 4, Funny
    What this man did was clearly an act of terrorism.

    I'm glad legislation is in the works to treat him as such. I recommend mandatory life sentence. We cannot remain idle while our nation is being attacked by such brutal "haxorists".

    I recommend mandatory life sentence.

  2. Pow? by shredds · · Score: 3, Funny

    For a second I was like "thats so cool that batman is a hacker!"...then I remembered thats Adam West, not Brian West.
    Oh well.

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  3. egads! by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Phillip: I say, Bartholomew, have you finished that smashing Practical Extraction Report Language script for your World Wide Web page in Extensible MACro System?

    Bartholomew: Why no Phillip, I have chosen to rewrite it with VIsual editor, and I have used the wonderful Active Server Pages environment on my International Business Machines computer system. Perhaps later I will re-write it in PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.

    Phillip: At least it's not FORmula TRANslation or COmmon Business Orientated Language!

    Both: Ha ha ha ha ha !

  4. Re:read the story folks by Pulzar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, if the code was licensed under the GPL, he's not guilty of anything.

    I'm guessing that when you break into someone's machine and copy software from it -- even if it's GPLed, you'd still be violating the "don't break into computers" law :).

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  5. Re:read the story folks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... then told the driver, "Hey, you're back door is open."

    I think you'd be arrested too.

    Yeah, for crimes against English!