[ghshephard]

Agreed - I can despise his behavior, and how he handled this situation, but at the same time say what he did should not be considered a felony, and, based on what I read on the ArsTechnica article, it's not even clear if I feel like it's criminal.

[gilgoomesh]

I think it should be illegal to commercially exploit personally identifying information if it is obviously not published intentionally or with permission. If my personal details were accidentally leaked, I'd prefer every law abiding company didn't suddenly use this information to focus me in their spam cannon sights.

Whether this should be a felony should relate to how conspiratorial the intent and whether there's a reasonable expectation that the persons whose information is involved will be affected. It does sound like weev was doing something that would screw the AT&T customers involved -- a pretty nasty move.

[tankenmate]

If this were the case there would be a large number of corporate executives behind bars tonight. The biggest problem as I see it is that there is one rule for well heeled, connected, corporate types and another for poor, zany, out there types. What happened to all created equal and justice for all?