EBay Hacker's Conviction Upheld

An anonymous reader writes "The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in the case of Jerome Heckenkamp, the former University of Wisconsin student convicted of federal computer crime charges in 2004 after hacking into Qualcomm, Cygnus Solutions and other companies, and defacing eBay. Heckenkamp was caught after a system administrator at the university hacked into his Linux box to gather evidence that Heckenkamp had been attacking the college mail server. The court ruled today that such counter-hacks are allowable under the 'special needs' exception to the Fourth Amendment, and upheld the warrantless search."

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What?

[Spazntwich]

The court ruled today that such counter-hacks are allowable under the 'special needs' exception to the Fourth Amendment

So suddenly the retarded aren't protected by the bill of rights?

This is preposterous!

Re:Correct decision

[Score Whore]

Last Post!

Re:Question

[lys1123]

That would be a small group of Mac users, all of which have awesome nicknames like "Crash" and "Burn", who are lead by a fearless hacker leader who due to his previous hacking antics hasn't actually touched a computer in seven years.

DUH!

Re:Question

[Mister Whirly]

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