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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:Congratulations by merlyn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'll never claim that I wasn't stupid. It's not my job to get you to like me. The point of my case is to pay attention to the mistakes I made, because a lot of people have told me that they either have or could have made similar mistakes. Maybe some of you are so perfect that you wouldn't. Good for you. But don't be so quick to judge that nobody would be that stupid then. Please.

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