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pi18n on July 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Dep...

If he were guessing passwords jail time might be appropriate.

It's fucking ridiculous that changing the user agent, even to circumvent server "protections", would be a crime worthy of any jail time whatsoever. What is he guilty of? Criminal misrepresentation of web browser?

walid on July 2, 2013 [–]

Mostly. Seems like AT&T is operating like http://www.mailinator.com/ where you can access anything using an ID without a password.

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