Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by WestCoastJustin on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:21PM (#16853879)

I've contacted the reporter to see if we can setup a legal fund for this guy. It sounds like he's being bullied. This could also get a very bad precedent in Canada as this is totally absurd.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by gburt on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:34PM (#16853971)

Please keep us informed on the outcome. I have written a letter to my MP and MLA as well as the MP for Halifax.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by WestCoastJustin on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:07PM (#16854191)

He got back to me and said there is no legal fund at this time. These people need to hire a lawyer ASAP. Their sons life is over because he wrote a for loop with wget.

  for i in `seq 1 7000`; do
    wget http://foi.example-gov-domain.gc.ca/foi-download.cgi?id=$i;
  done

Boom, you are not going to federal prison for 10 years! What a complete joke!

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by Sytten on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:22AM (#16855702)

As an act of solidarity, we should all run it until they drop charges and fix the damn thing. They can't charge 5000 people.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by mlazowik on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:19AM (#16873974)

https://www.gofundme.com/ns-teen-railroaded-by-government

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by WestCoastJustin on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:17AM (#16884931)

Awesome, thanks!

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by anaphor on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:02AM (#16855605)

I would love to help out if possible. I'm a Canadian citizen but not in Halifax, so I guess I can write my MP but I don't think they have much authority to look into a provincial matter like this.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by 4cad on Monday April 23, 2018 @12:50PM (#16905131)

https://www.gofundme.com/ns-teen-railroaded-by-government?ut...

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by zkirill on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:09PM (#16861337)

Call Andy Fillmore's [1] office anyway.

[1] https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Andy-F...

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by Kelbit on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:06PM (#16854186)

Keep us informed. I'll chip in.

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