Randal Schwartz's Charges Expunged

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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Re:Congratulations

[Anonymous Coward]

13 years of fighting doesn't sound especially pleasant. I can't imagine what Randall had to go through to get his name cleared.

Yeah, but ... what about Dante? I hear he's still rotting in Hell!