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Re:Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal H... by rescripting on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @04:23PM (#5640541)
Weev was sentenced to 3.5 years for simply downloading AT&T's data that was made available over a public (but obscure) API. So yes, seems like you'll get prosecuted pretty harshly.
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Re:Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal H... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @09:06PM (#5641884)
That was a privacy violation. PII is a bit of a different fish.
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