Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case

merlyn writes "The Oregon Supreme Court declined to hear my case, leaving standing the unfavorable decision of the Oregon Appeals Court as the final authority on this eight-year-long case, well known to many sysadmin and Perl hacker alike. Details at my fors-announce posting." If you're not sure what that means, you probably want to read at least this site which offers a straightforwardly partisan look at the complicated case of Intel vs. Schwartz as well as Schwartz's own page; it's a strange world where programmers and sysadmins can be convicted for seemingly innocent activities.

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*Seemingly*???

[autopr0n]

I'm sorry, but at first blush what he was doing would not seem inocent to anyone. He was cracking passwords, and sent out some VPs password to other people. He was also not a fully employee and didn't authorization to do what he was doing.

He may not have meant any harm by what he did. And when you look closer you can see that. But what he did does not seem innocent in any sense of the word.

Yeh, now mod me flamebait like that first post AC. God forbid we should go against the Editors

(btw, sorry this post hasn't been spellchecked. I'm away from home and my spellchecker)