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08 Jul 2010
One of the team arrested after exposing a security flaw in AT&T's iPad data systems has broken a gagging order to protest at what he claims is unlawful persecution by Apple.
Andrew 'Escher' Auernheimer, a member of the Goatse Security group, said in blog post that he and others were being hounded by police for using legitimate computer security techniques. He also claims that he has been denied access to a lawyer.
"I am being persecuted solely because my speech has angered a large corporation. I have been threatened with indictment from the Assistant US Attorney on the case," he wrote.
"My actions and those of Goatse were not criminal; they were done using industry standard practices as a public service.
"Scraping data from a public web server is an extremely common practice amongst lawyers, security researchers and journalists, not to mention web developers."
Auernheimer pointed out that other security researchers had used similar techniques in hacking Foursquare and that no action had been taken. He is asking for contributions towards a defence fund.
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A Service
I think the ' Service ' is a grey area to call this type of hack, on the other hand isnt it in Apple's best interests and other companies that these groups find holes and report on them rather than say a black hat hacker doing it and reporting it without any regard for pubic data by spreding it freely accross the internet? Perhaps Apple should take a moment to reflect on their actions as the next security hole they find might not be disclosed to them for fear of prosecition and persecution.
Posted by: Carl Dean 08 Jul 2010
Another case of Apple buying off the law
It's amazing how fast you can wind up with trumped-up charges when big dollars are involved. It also amazes me how big corporations can buy silence in judicial matters when "criminal" matters should be public domain. I have little doubt that the so called "hackers" are being denied due process because big dollars can buy "Justice". Another case of big money violating the constitution by "buying" their own brand of "Justice".
Posted by: Patriot 08 Jul 2010
100% with the guy
apple are just as bad as microsoft. nobody should be allowed to get put under this ridiculous pressure, just because some rip-off company got upset. he should go as far as he can to suing apple for literally "bullying him". there is no right to do this to a human being because some company has the attitude of "oh i steal code from open source kernels and sell apples wooo i am steve jobs the fairie look at me in my tutu rofl". complete bs. maybe if these stupid ass companys spent more time actually learning how to employ people who can protect against such simple data attacks. they also wouldn't look as stupid.
Posted by: demo 08 Jul 2010