From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:26:13 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! In-Reply-To: References: <20171103102329.A496B18C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <8abf7ed3-1635-0a21-050d-ce5df929624c@telegraphics.com.au> 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. > >