This guy (I mean whoever did it, not necessarily who the article purports did it) is ultimately pretty dumb; it's one thing to point out "it is easy to break into a public figure's Yahoo email because the security questions rely entirely on security-through-obscurity" but it's another thing to actually do it.
Like others have said, the defense provided sounds pretty feasible; I'm no legal expert, so it's very plausible he has done nothing really wrong, and it might be the case where prosecution will lead to a dangerous interpretation of laws that would make "truly" innocent people guilty. As usual, the end result will probably be less about law and more about the candidate involved making sure the situation turns out how she wants it to, the justice system is eager to put people in jail so I figure punishment will be likely. Everyone hates college students, lazy hippies!
Also, he should have probably just used TOR. I'm not really that good of a cracker, preferring to instead program useful things and then getting paid for it, so would this have covered his tracks pretty well?
Either way, it's pretty amazingly funny to see a /b/tard easily get access to a public figure's email and let 4chan get a hold of it, and then see the news media act like it's some sinister hacker network that did it. Well played.
Like others have said, the defense provided sounds pretty feasible; I'm no legal expert, so it's very plausible he has done nothing really wrong, and it might be the case where prosecution will lead to a dangerous interpretation of laws that would make "truly" innocent people guilty. As usual, the end result will probably be less about law and more about the candidate involved making sure the situation turns out how she wants it to, the justice system is eager to put people in jail so I figure punishment will be likely. Everyone hates college students, lazy hippies!
Also, he should have probably just used TOR. I'm not really that good of a cracker, preferring to instead program useful things and then getting paid for it, so would this have covered his tracks pretty well?
Either way, it's pretty amazingly funny to see a /b/tard easily get access to a public figure's email and let 4chan get a hold of it, and then see the news media act like it's some sinister hacker network that did it. Well played.