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by hobs 483 days ago
Prosecutors are not famous for caring about internet arguments, weev (who is a piece of shit for other reasons) got sentenced to 41 months for effectively incrementing an integer in a url - https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/new-york-man-sentenced-41...

"he concocted the fiction that he was trying to make the Internet more secure, and that all he did was walk in through an unlocked door. The jury didn’t buy it, and neither did the Court in imposing sentence upon him today.”"