So he's facing 100 years for releasing thousands of credit card numbers and security codes. He was leaking information and the numbers were not the motivation. Seems quite harsh, but am I missing something?
Edit: He also appears to have just posted a link. Unless he actually uploaded the data, hopefully he's acquitted for that. By this standard, wouldn't Google be guilty of all sorts of terrible crimes?
I read the indictment, and indeed, it appears that they charged him for sharing a link to a pastebin of credit card numbers from Stratfor customers on IRC. It's an absurd charge, and I hope it gets dropped.
What he's in real hot water for is threatening a specific FBI agent, that agent's family and law enforcement in general. I also seem to recall reading that he posted something along the lines of "if any heavily armed people dressed as law enforcement show up at my home I'm going to shoot them because they're probably zetas dressed as cops".
> He also appears to have just posted a link. Unless he actually uploaded the data, hopefully he's acquitted for that. By this standard, wouldn't Google be guilty of all sorts of terrible crimes?
Edit: He also appears to have just posted a link. Unless he actually uploaded the data, hopefully he's acquitted for that. By this standard, wouldn't Google be guilty of all sorts of terrible crimes?