>>Please stop with the physical analogies. Locks and doors and physical space have well defined ways of indicating "authorized" and "unauthorized". We also have a social contract about entering spaces of others, even if there are no locks at all.
The social contract of the web is that "you can send a request to any webserver on the internet without permission". That's how the web _works_.
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Physical analogies may have their limitations when describing the web.
That said, weev KNEW for a fact that he was accessing information that should not have been public.
In other words, he KNEW that he was walking into someone's unlocked house.
Furthermore, he BRAGGED about rubbing it in AT&T's face, and wanting to cause as much damage as possible. He had malicious intent.
So no, his trespassing was not unintended. He didn't happen to just accidentally grab a bunch of email addresses from some web server he sent requests to randomly.
True, even Wozniak has recently said he doesn't like what the USA has become, that it is like former communist russia or stassi germany, and ever since the patriot act we have really been hosed, I wonder if the Woz can help do anything for WEEV personally if he really feels this way (it was apple ipad devices involved with this right?)
> Furthermore, he BRAGGED about rubbing it in AT&T's face, and wanting to cause as much damage as possible. He had malicious intent.
Malicious intent is not criminal.
> That said, weev KNEW for a fact that he was accessing information that should not have been public.
It is massively unfair to put the burden of inferring the intention of a remote system onto the requester.
In fact, he could not have known that he was accessing information that should not have been public (as you claim), because ATT expressly configured their systems to MAKE IT PUBLIC. It wasn't an accident or misconfiguration. Your basic premise doesn't hold up, and neither does the silly physical "unlocked house" analogy.
An unlocked house implies there are locks and doors present, neither of which were in this case.
It's not trespassing, and just because it's non-random doesn't make it criminal.
The social contract of the web is that "you can send a request to any webserver on the internet without permission". That's how the web _works_.
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Physical analogies may have their limitations when describing the web.
That said, weev KNEW for a fact that he was accessing information that should not have been public.
In other words, he KNEW that he was walking into someone's unlocked house.
Furthermore, he BRAGGED about rubbing it in AT&T's face, and wanting to cause as much damage as possible. He had malicious intent.
So no, his trespassing was not unintended. He didn't happen to just accidentally grab a bunch of email addresses from some web server he sent requests to randomly.