From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:54:21 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! In-Reply-To: <8abf7ed3-1635-0a21-050d-ce5df929624c@telegraphics.com.au> References: <20171103102329.A496B18C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <8abf7ed3-1635-0a21-050d-ce5df929624c@telegraphics.com.au> Message-ID: <5a358581-1d24-4041-25bc-31772361e50c@kilonet.net> BTW, the one case I was thinking of when I wrote this is not even documented anywhere. I can't find any reference to it whatsoever. It happened around 1983/84. So it's not only the public cases, there were ones that were swept under the rug it seems. All the while, the defendant was threatened with 20-30 years in a federal prison, but eventually was given 10 years probation. I knew the guy involved. It was an interesting time. On 11/3/2017 3:26 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > On 2017-11-03 9:11 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote: >> Around the mid 80's,there was another case where the DoJ was willing to >> crush someone, not for causing a real disruption, but for getting into >> the wrong places and reading the wrong things. >> >> I'll keep the details out, but the prosecution of RTM might have been >> more over the top because of preceding cases of hacking. > The DOJ brutality has only got worse since then: > > https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/internet-own-boy-story-aaron-swartz/ > > --Toby >