FBI Raids Security Researcher's Home

Sparr0 writes, "The FBI has raided the home of Christopher Soghoian, the grad student who created the NWA boarding pass site. Details can be found on his blog including a scanned copy of the warrant. The bad news is that he really did break the law. The good news is that Senator Charles Schumer did it first, 19 months ago, on an official government website no less. The outcome of this trial should be at least academically interesting. At best, it could result in nullifying some portion of the law(s) that the TSA operates under." Read on for Sparr0's take on what laws may apply in this case.

Boiling down some of the legalese, the charges (if any are filed) will be "conspiracy to knowingly present a false and fictitious claim upon or against the United States, or any department or agency thereof in violation of USC 18 (secs. 2, 371, 1036, 1343, 2318) and USC 49 (secs. 46314 and 46316) and 49 CFR (secs. 1540.103 and 1540.105)" (edited for brevity).

Comments

Repost!

[BobSutan]

This was already posted like 26 hours ago. Talk about your short-term memory!

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/27/212 4231

GNUnet vs. Freenet

[Kadin2048]

Can you tell me what the relative advantages would be of GNUNet versus Freenet?

It seems like Freenet was basically designed for doing something exactly like this, yet it seems like Freenet really never took off for anything (besides some minor anarchism and porn). I don't pretend to know exactly why Freenet failed to take off, but how does GNUnet improve on it, and how does it hope to avoid the same fate?