“The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison

Re:“The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison by rdl on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:47PM (#5395347)

Obviously it goes through the process, but I think the feds will push to keep CFAA as well, so it's going to go all the way. 41 months is long enough for that; if he'd gotten a 3-6 month sentence the process wouldn't have had time, so maybe weev's "troll the courts" strategy had some merit.

While weev himself is highly unsympathetic, his actual "crime" in this case is quite sympathetic -- it was technically trivial and the results were given to the press, vs. used for financial gain (even though they talked about it). So maybe it's not the worst possible test case.

His biggest mistake was not being in the 9th circuit, though.

(IANAL though, of course)

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Re:“The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison by DannyBee on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:58PM (#5395442)

FWIW: I don't think SCOTUS will bother taking the case if he loses his first appeal.

IAAL :)

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Re:“The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison by rdl on Monday March 18, 2013 @01:03PM (#5395482)

So the most likely route for a case like this to SCOTUS would be split circuit? I doubt this is the last CFAA case.

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Re:“The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison by DannyBee on Monday March 18, 2013 @01:43PM (#5395806)

Assuming he loses, yes, losing elsewhere and having a circuit split is probably the most likely route.

But who knows, maybe scotus would get bored enough to find it interesting.

I'm betting "no" in part because legislative fixes are being considered right now. If one passes, it would reduce the odds SCOTUS would ever take the case.

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Re:“The AT&T Hacker” Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison by khuey on Monday March 18, 2013 @01:44PM (#5395811)

He needs to win on appeal for this to go to SCOTUS.

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