Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank

Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by hurin on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:21PM (#9208682)

> Keep your pranks on the right side of legal, or get burned. Understand the CFAA and when you are in violation.

Because the problem is clearly the "evil hacker jason" and not the ridiculousness of the laws in which severity of punishment is entirely inconsistent with any tangible damages?

I think people forget that it's their tax-payer money being used to ruin's someone else's life.

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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by jsmthrowaway on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:18PM (#9208871)

Would you say the same thing after reading the indictment? Just curious.

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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by hurin on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:48PM (#9208974)

Is there something in the indictment that you find to be in direct contradiction to the petition? I couldn't find it - of course the Brian half of the story is missing here.

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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by takeda on Sunday March 15, 2015 @11:46PM (#9209715)

There were no pranks but simply DDoS for being banned, Brian did not DDoS Jason's email but banned him for breaking the rules. Pretty much the only truth in that petition is that Jason is in deep sh*t.

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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by MichaelGG on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:23PM (#9209148)

The petition says that denial of service attacks were performed against his email account. The indictment says he was banned. Sounds like some serious spin.

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