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Randal Schwartz's Charges Expunged

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the about-time dept.

After 13 years, Randal Schwartz has had his conviction expunged. In effect, legally it never happened. If you haven't heard about this one before, my take is that as a contractor at Intel, Randal did some over-zealous white-hat cracking free-of-charge; this embarrassed some people in management (he pointed out that their passwords were terrible) and management then chose to embarrass themselves further by having him convicted of a felony under an 'anti-hacking' law. More info can be had from the Friends of Randal Schwartz.

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  1. Re:Ditto; FBI can still see it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    There was a PDF file linked on the http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/Friends of Randal Schwartz site states:

    IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the clerk of the Court shall forward a certified copy of this Order to all law enforcement agencies mentioned in the Court's file, including the following:
    A. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
    B. The Oregon State Police, and
    C. The Oregon State Corrections Division, and
    D. The Arresting Agency, Portland Police Bureau. So the FBI can't use it against him. The PDF file is a copy of the expungement order from the court.
  2. Re:How's that for revisionist history? by merlyn · · Score: 5, Informative
    "His position at Intel was not involved in security, intrusion detection, or other areas that might actually call for "white hat hacking" as part of the job function.".

    Wrong, I was a systems and network administrator. According to job description, that's part of the job.

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  3. Re:Congratulations by merlyn · · Score: 5, Informative
    "He installed backdoors at 3 companies"

    Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence, your honor!

    Sustained.

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