[ghshephard]

But, in this case - didn't he just spoof a user agent and toss fairly guessable CCID numbers?

Certainly hacking, and given that he doesn't work for, or is associated with AT&T - some type of criminal trespass - but, we're talking community service here, not a felony. Slap the hand, don't cut it off.

I would hope we can all agree that there is a pretty big difference between a pervasive attack where someone spear-phishes a user inside a company, plants a trojan, and uses that to acquire sensitive intellectual property for financial gain, and/or do damage - versus what weev did - trying some pretty obvious numbers on the public website with an iPad user agent.

[rayiner]

> Certainly hacking, and given that he doesn't work for, or is associated with AT&T - some type of criminal trespass - but, we're talking community service here, not a felony. Slap the hand, don't cut it off.

I agree, but he's not being charged with felonies for simply poking around. He's being charged with felonies for what he claims he was going to do with the information.

The defense seems to be that he wasn't actually going to do that, but it's the domain of the jury to decide his intentions based on his actions.

[jessaustin]

some type of criminal trespass

When you send packets to an internet-connected device, and that device sends some packets back to you, that is not "trespass". You haven't "gone" anywhere, and you certainly didn't cross any "property lines". Much in the way that the copyright mafia wants to redefine "piracy" from "murder and plunder on the high seas" to "listening to a friend's MP3", numerous other bad people will be thrilled when the public accepts "SYN,SYN-ACK,ACK" as a new meaning of "trespass".