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From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:26:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8abf7ed3-1635-0a21-050d-ce5df929624c@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6fc9d99-734f-af5f-5066-de901f78df3e@kilonet.net>

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


> 
> 
> 
> On 11/3/2017 6:23 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>> lion's share of the blame: that has to go to Rasch,
>> and his superiors at the DoJ, who were apparently (as best I can
>> understand
>> their motives) willing to crush a young man under a bus to make a point.
> 
> 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-03 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-03 10:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-03 11:20 ` arnold
2017-11-03 13:11 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-03 19:12   ` [TUHS] "Oregano" and Unix wizards Don Hopkins
2017-11-03 19:21     ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-03 20:02       ` William Pechter
2017-11-03 19:26   ` Toby Thain [this message]
2017-11-03 20:54     ` [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! Arthur Krewat
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-01 20:36 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-01 21:12 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-01 21:49 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-11-02  6:35   ` William Corcoran
2019-11-02  6:44     ` William Corcoran
2019-11-02  7:31       ` A. P. Garcia
2017-11-16 23:24 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-16 23:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-03  0:53 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-03  1:39 ` Ken Thompson
2017-11-03  9:25   ` arnold
2017-11-02 13:46 Norman Wilson
2017-11-02 14:32 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-02 14:42 ` Will Senn
2017-11-02 15:00   ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-02 15:26     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-02 16:48       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:50       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:52       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:54       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:56       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:57       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:00       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:57         ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 15:25   ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02 15:52     ` Will Senn
2017-11-02 18:42     ` Ken Thompson
2017-11-02 12:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-02 14:26 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02  3:46 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-02  5:53 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-01 22:17 Dave Horsfall
2017-11-01 22:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-02 16:43   ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-01 23:03 ` Charles H. Sauer
2017-11-01 23:15 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-02  0:06 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-02  0:09 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02  1:08   ` Clem cole
2017-11-02  8:18 ` arnold
2017-11-02 17:56 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 18:32   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-02 20:32     ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 21:59       ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 22:27         ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-04  1:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-15 21:36   ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-15 21:50     ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-15 21:54     ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-16  1:05       ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-16  1:22     ` Will Senn
2017-11-16  1:56       ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-16  2:41         ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-16  3:00         ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-16  7:39         ` Steve Simon
2017-11-16 15:54         ` Clem Cole
2017-11-16 15:58           ` Jon Steinhart

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