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Weev's Attorney Says FBI Is Intercepting His Client's Mail
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The FBI is intercepting the prison correspondence of infamous Internet troll Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, including letters from his defense team, according to his attorney. 'He's sent me between 10 and 20 letters in the last month or two. I've received one,' Tor Ekeland, who had just returned from visiting Auernheimer at the federal corrections institute in Allenwood, PA., told the Daily Dot in a video interview.
Last March, Auernheimer was convicted of accessing a computer without authorization and sentenced to 41 months in prison. As a member of the computer security team Goatse Security, Auernheimer discovered a major security flaw in AT&T's network, which allowed him to download the email addresses of some 114,000 iPad users. Goatse Security reported the flaw to Gawker and provided journalists with the information, who then published it in redacted form."
Last March, Auernheimer was convicted of accessing a computer without authorization and sentenced to 41 months in prison. As a member of the computer security team Goatse Security, Auernheimer discovered a major security flaw in AT&T's network, which allowed him to download the email addresses of some 114,000 iPad users. Goatse Security reported the flaw to Gawker and provided journalists with the information, who then published it in redacted form."
There are multiple other TLA's out there intercepting all of our communiques.
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Weev is the last person on earth having a right to complain about anyone accessing his emails. Hypocrite.
Goatse Security? A guy named Tor? It's not April 1st yet is it?
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
I love the unkempt appearance. It sells crazy right away.
If they intercept it, it is not the same as physically intercepting a piece of paper in an envelope. They will get a copy, and you will still get your copy. There is something else that is preventing the e-mail from being delivered. Tell him to check his spam filter.
Decent sp agencies try to avoid detection. This means not keeping the letters you illegally open.
I would be shocked if they didn't already habe machines to brute scan without opening.
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In prison, all communication to the outside public is recorded and screened.
Standard protocol.
Civilised society doesn't work like that.
This.
When someone violates Constitutional Rights in America, two things happen: First, evidence that comes from that violation is inadmissible in court. Second, the person whose rights have been violated can sue the pants off the government.
It is more complicated because of a massive fraud on the part of the prosecution to pretend that the information is not based on that violation.
It is also more complicated because juries, as a whole, care less about the government having violated your constitutional rights when you are a criminal.
It is also more complicated because when they get caught doing something bad enough, cops usually offer a deal where you won't sue and they won't prosecute.
that Tor is an insecure means of communication.
. We've got computers, we're tapping phone lines, you know that ain't allowed - Talking Heads, "Life During Wartime"
1) He is a well documented liar, bigot and homophobe.
2) None deliver is not proof of interception.
3) Lawyer clearly ignorant of how email works at best and deliberately miss leading at worst.
4) 10-20 emails is pretty vague, were
5) Convicted criminal have snail mail is read/censored why should email be different.
Laws are for the little people. Little people like you.
So we finally know who the goatse guy is? He started the Goatse Security... damn dude, what did your wife think about your bleeding hole. Did she sent you to see a a doc?
they read ALL your fucking mail and they tell you that on the first damn day. stop being a fucking pussy.
~ We can plug ANY security hole, no matter how gaping. ~
And then sue anyone who reads it without the license fee being paid. Could be worth a million dollars per letter if you follow the RIAA enough. Just to be sure though, make up some song lyrics as part of the letter and you could at least get ASCAP to sue on your behalf.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
It'll be deemed information "relevant to national security", or accidentally deleted "purely by standard procedure two years ago" with the timestamps on said acts sometime next week.
Or wait, even 'better'! He's a hacker your honor, see, and thus all of this evidence is actually conclusive proof that he has been illegally using Terrorist Hacking abilities to change the FBI's own computers!
We've been seeing exactly those tactics used, approved and even supported for *years* in various police procedurals*. Law and Order; a dozen varieties of the same show with a subtitle by dick wolf, NCIS, 24, anything involving government agencies really. The only show I recall having either a conscience growing (rather than disappearing off the naive idealistic rookie in the first two or three episodes after their introduction) and/or an admission of the wrongness of what is being committed was Spooks. North American shows though? It's the heroic, righteous, baby-saving thing to do!
The average american (and canadian) citizen increasingly "understands" these violations as being not only something to expect, but completely and totally legit methods.
Give you two guesses as to what that does to our rights here in real life...
*... I think *maybe* Parks and Recreation might possibly be the one exception? Maybe?
You've clearly never read Encyclopedia Dramatica
In his own words "racist homophobic trolling is another man's "great art."
Nope, nope, nope.... clearly everbody is equal under the law. It's just that some are more equal than others.