Conveniently enough they told Google not to shred it.
Probably becuase it's a back door to get their grubby paws on it without the bother of a warrant. Just accuse Google of unlawful wiretaps and bam, free evidence.
Sony came out ahead in the settlement. They got Geohot to bow and kiss their feet by promising never to hack ANY sony product ever again, or face 10K in fines for EACH attempt. All his security work on the PS3 gets locked up forever and he can't talk about it ever again.
He's also agreed to be bound by all future TOS for said products even before he's read them.
And what you said about Sony settling because they couldn't win could just as easily be said about Geohot. Plus, suing a young hacker into oblivion isn't a good PR move. They had him by the balls with both the DMCA as well as having cherry picked a judge that was probably in their pocket.
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Actually I hope the evidence DOES get shown in court.
Then when Facebook shows it up for the forgery it is, he can kiss his original settlement goodbye for putting "a fraud upon the court".
And then, my favorite part, the feds clap him in irons on perjury charges and he spends a few years behind bars.
If they've bounced it back to the donators then that's cool.
If they confiscated it and kept it for themselves, not cool.
Conveniently enough they told Google not to shred it.
Probably becuase it's a back door to get their grubby paws on it without the bother of a warrant. Just accuse Google of unlawful wiretaps and bam, free evidence.
No it's NOT all the same.
National security secrets, kiddie porn, and copyright violations are illegal. Home movies of kittens are not.
And unless the feds have probable cause, they've got no business snooping the wires enough to find out which of the above my traffic is.
The AA stocks being shorted just before 9/11 doesn't deserve an explanation nearly as much as the fact that the SEC and FBI did not investigate it.
They still misspelled NSA. Whether they got the right agency or not is another issue altogether.
Not to mention such commentary could potentially taint the proceedings later.
If any member of the jury got wind of this I would call for an immediate mistrial.
Yup.
I just checked on Cielo, and apparently it is the NNSA that operates it, and not the NSA.
So they're wrong on two levels, one for misspelling NSA, and two for using the wrong agency.
It was a typo, they just fixed it.
Or, perhaps, his parents might skip town and drag the kid with them just to make SURE he loses his x-box for good.
If I wanted to teach my kid a lesson and I was a sadistic parent that's exactly what I would do.
It's Agency, not Administration
Which will put him in contempt of court and forfeit his Xbox.
Doe v. Ashcroft may have something to say about that.
Well, spewing spam should be a strong clue.
Dynamic IPs shouldn't be allowed to send outbound email directly anyhow.
Just disable autorun or whatever.
Or use linux
Sony came out ahead in the settlement. They got Geohot to bow and kiss their feet by promising never to hack ANY sony product ever again, or face 10K in fines for EACH attempt. All his security work on the PS3 gets locked up forever and he can't talk about it ever again.
He's also agreed to be bound by all future TOS for said products even before he's read them.
And what you said about Sony settling because they couldn't win could just as easily be said about Geohot. Plus, suing a young hacker into oblivion isn't a good PR move. They had him by the balls with both the DMCA as well as having cherry picked a judge that was probably in their pocket.
And that's assuming he actually agreed to and was abound by them in the first place.
If the feds don't bother getting a warrant, then they don't get to whine if their "suspect" decides to dispose of the device as he sees fit.
Oh please, spare me your moral rhetoric.
Pirates are going to pirate no matter what the circumstances. They don't give a shit about copyrights.
They are nothing but cheapskates.
It's illegal to open a game and sell it as new because it's fraud.
The first sale doctrine means copyright has nothing to do with it.
Pirates always get a better experience simply because they don't give a flying fuck about DRM, the law, copy protection, or anything else.
I don't know how he could presently have huge lawyer bills when he had 10 grand in spare change to boot over to the EFF.
Being the hacker that jailbroke the impenetrable PS3 his math skills can't be that bad.
Any regulation that depends on enforcement from someone whose congressional superiors you can simply bribe away with campaign contributions will fail.
I got a slice of it after receiving an offer in my email yesterday.
Here's hoping municipalities that try this don't get sued by the telcos.
TDS anyone?