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United States v. Andrew Auernheimer(Weev)

The case is significant because of the governmentsoverbroad interpretation of what constitutesunauthorized access to a computer under theCFAA. The CFAA is notorious for failing to define

what constitutes unauthorized access to a protectedcomputer. The interpretation that prevailed at trialrisks criminalizing normal computer behavior thatmillions of Americans engage in every day.


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Computer Fraud and Abuse Defense Fund What Happened to Weev

On November 20, 2012, controversial computer securityresearcher Andrew Auernheimer was convicted by a jurysitting in the Federal District Court for the District of NewJersey of one count of conspiracy to violate the ComputerFraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2)(C)) and onecount of identity theft (18 U.S. C. 1028(a)(7)). The verdicthas startled and alarmed many legitimate computersecurity researchers and it should be of concern to

anyone who uses the Internet on a regular basis.The facts are simple.

In June of 2010, Andrew Auernheimers co-defendantDaniel Spitler discovered that AT&Ts servers werepublishing email addresses of iPad subscribers on theservers authentication log in page when queried with a

SIM card number that matched an existing AT&Tsubscribers SIM card number. Upon discovering this,Spitler wrote an iterative script that queried AT&Tspublicly accessible iPad servers and copied over 120,000email addresses. No password or any type of securitywas ever hacked, nor was any attempt ever made to hackany password or bypass any existing securitymeasures. In essence, what Spitlers script did is what

countless computer users do every day when they typeinformation into their web browsers URL.

Auernheimer immediately went to the press with thisinformation, and emailed some of the people whose emailaddresses were obtained. Neither Auernheimer norSpitler did anything else with the information. At trialthere was no evidence of any harm to anyone except for

the allegation that AT&T was embarrassed by its failure toprotect what it claimed was confidential information.

On March 18, 2013, the Honorable Susan D. Wigentonsentenced Andrew Auernheimer to 41 months on each ofthe Indictments counts, to run concurrently, as well as


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three years of supervised release with special terms, andordered him to pay restitution in the amount of$73,167.00. The basis for the restitution was that AT&Thad to pay for a direct mailing to its customers roughly

one week after it had emailed them about the so calledbreach.

On March 21, 2012, Tor Ekeland P.C. filed a Notice ofAppeal with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. On March21, 2012, Tor Ekeland P.C. filed a Notice of Appeal withthe Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Joining Tor EkelandP.C. on the appeal are Orin Kerr, Marcia

Hoffman and Hanni Fakhoury of the Electronic FrontierFoundation, and Nace Naumoski

Source:Computer Fraud and Abuse Defense Fundhttp://cfaadefensefund.com/


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The verdict has caused understandable outrage in thecomputer security research community and beyond. Thetheory of unauthorized access that prevailed at trial riskscriminalizing computer behavior that millions of

Americans engage in daily and subjecting them toarbitrary prosecution at the governments whim.

EFF has long criticized the CFAA for its vague language,broad sweep, and heavy penalties. Since the tragic deathof programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz inJanuary, EFF has redoubled its efforts to reform the law."Weev's case shows just how problematic the Computer

Fraud and Abuse Act is," EFF Staff Attorney HanniFakhoury said. "We look forward to reversing the trialcourt's decision on appeal. In the meantime, Congressshould amend the CFAA to make sure we don't have moreAaron Swartzs and Andrew Auernheimers in the future.

Source:Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Joins Andrew Auernheimer Case on

Appeal https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-joins-andrew-auernheimer-case-appeal


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A visit with Weev.

A beautiful write-up of a visit with Andrew AuernheimerWeev who is currently incarcerated at Allenwood

Federal Correctional Complex in White Deer, Penn.originally published on July 19 herehttp://pastebin.com/iNHN2maY by @shokufeyesib

*DISCLAIMER: SHITTON OF GRAMMAR AND SPELLINGISSUES. 0 FUCKS GIVEN. DEAL WITH IT


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his face in my hand and told him I loved him. He smiledand said I love you too lil girl (Can you hear my eyesrolling? lol).

As always and like our phone calls, I first started by askinghim rapid-fire Qs on his health, condition, books, letters,nutrition, safetyetc. He gets distracted easily so I had tocut him off and ask specific Qs, in order to be able toknow what was done and what needed to get done.

Then he told me about what he was going through.Obviously he trolled me at no end with all his Pinky and

the Brain world takeover plans (I am Brain and hesPinky, tho he refutes that. I just think it is obviousno?).

We fought about Crick and Franklin (look up discovery ofDNA on wiki), as alwayssmhI will eternally get trolledby him on that topic. Just no use denying it.

He was adamant to leave his bad boy image intact, but I

told him to suck it up, cz I was gna tell everyone how hespent 15 mins grilling me on who I was going to Defconwith and whether I was gna be safe. I wont be there topull them off of you, if anything happens He saidreferring to an incident that had occurred last year whenhe had to fight off a couple of dicks who were harassinghis female friend. He had to do that while being out onbailI asked him if Tor had made any comments on my drivingskills last time we visited (I drove 189 miles in 2 hrs onFriday O_0), and he said Tor found yourdrivinguminterestinglololol.and that he had toremind him that I did live in Iran (tho I never drovethere, but yes good point).

We talked about the state of lulz of the interwebz and Ipromised him to get ppl to send him articles, news, lulzyshit as much as I can

We fought on how to pronounce AMICUS and I almostflipped him off! He enjoyed reading the amicus and hisappeal and was excited about them.


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He endlessly admonished me on not finding a jobyet(can someone please tell him how much of time-consuming bullcrap it is to have so many of them in

jail?). I told him he better not be thinking I will beworking when he gets out, cz he be ma sugar daddyhelaughedI might be jokingI might not beO_0

I could not take any pen or paper in so I dont remembersome stuff, I will tweet them out and update the pastebinif I do along the way.

PLEASE SHARE THIS WIDELY.WHAT I SAW:

-He has lost weight. He didnt look gaunt, but he wasthinner than he went in and he was not overweight tobegin with.

-He was glassy-eyed. Looked exhausted and extremely

sleepy, though he was alert at first. He did, however, startto get very sleepy and tired by the end of my visit. I triedto leave earlier so he could sleep but we both thought heneeded the contact so he stuck it out.

-His glasses are most def broken, and sliding down hisface constantly. That happened in Essex in Newark NJ.

I got him Twizzlers and a Snicker bar, only gluten-freeoptions at the vending machine. I forgot to bring moresingles (paid toll with most of them..stupid) so I could notget him anything to drink

-He seemed more subdued and resigned than WHAT IEVER THOUGHT WOULD BE POSSIBLE. It didnt seem like

he had given up, just exhausted, thus, preserving hisenergy by being more quiet.

WHAT I LEARNED:-He is not getting his letters. Out of the numerous ones Ihad sent he only got one. Yet he recieved all my Flikshops(its a very useful app, look it up. It is invaluable). He did


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not receive any postcards from anyone at all. Hespecifically did not receive my letters, and a few others.

-He is getting gluten-free meals, tho unappetizing, he is

being fed.

-He is being worked to exhaustion, presumably to shuthim up. As per him, inmates work one shift only, but he isforced to work two shifts. He works in the kitchen from 4am to 12 pm and from 1-2ish to 11 am-ish he weedsoutside. He only sleeps from 12 am to 4 am (ONLY 4HOURS). He has Fridays and Saturdays off (not sure about

Sundays). He admitted in a way that working him so muchis proving effective to shut him up. He apologized for notwriting too much cz of the exhaustion.

-He gets $20 of commissary per month and his stampsand MP3 are not included in that $20 and come from aseparate fund; so he does not have restrictions on buyingstamps or MP3s. (he asked ppl not to donate to his

commissary fund, so he wont have to pay his restitutionthrough that. He instead asked you guys to donate to hisWePay and CFAAFund acc. Please refer to the followingsite for the noted donation fundshttp://freeweev.github.io/ )

-He felt alone and down a lil. So please send him letters asmany as you can and dont give up.-He has madeumerrsolid allies in prison. I am suremost of you can guess the type of allies he would make,but apparently he is safe as a result and has a posse ofsorts (very loose definition of posse).-He had specific requests which will be discussed withthose who can help in private.

Some of his attorney-client rights is being violated.Appropriate parties have been notified.

WHAT IS NEEDED:-Please send him letters, flood him with them and dontgive up (not books, letters). He specifically requestedarticles, news, tweets etc. If you have printing capability,


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please send him info regularly. He also wants gossip fromthe interwebz and when I brought up some new cast ofcharacters, he seemed confusedso I promised him awiki of the interwebz lulz. Some ppl have already offered

to help me with that. If you can too and I have not talkedto you, please dm me and lets set up something. It wouldmean a great deal to him and me as well.-If you are gna be in town and would like to visit himplease let me know or go to the following site anddownload the application, fill it out and SIGN it and send itto his prison counselor at the following address. Whenapproved he will let you (or me) know and you can visit

him. http://www.bop.gov/policy/forms/BP_A0629.pdf

You can send letters or postcards here:

Andrew Auernheimer#10378-010FCI Allenwood Low

Federal Correctional InstitutionPO Box 1000White Deer PA 17887

To donate to his commissary fund:https://www.wepay.com/donations/weev-prison-fund_1

To sign up to send books from his reading list:http://bit.ly/weevbks

To let us know what books you have sent:http://bit.ly/weevsent

Books can be hardcover or paperback but the FederalBureau of Prisons requires they be shipped directly from a

bookseller or publisher. Most sellers on half.com will shipto prisons. Amazon/B&N will, too, but you will have to payshipping.


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