Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails

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AT&T screwed up in 2010 (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/10/0021228/att-leaks-emails-addresses-of-114000-ipad-users), serving up the e-mail addresses of over 110,000 of its iPad 3G customers online for anyone to find. But Andrew Auernheimer, an online activist who pointed out AT&T's blunder to Gawker Media, which went on to publicize the breach of private information, is the one in federal court this week (http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507661/jail-looms-for-man-who-revealed-att-leaked-ipad-user-e-mails/). Groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation worry that should that charge succeed it will become easy to criminalize many online activities, including work by well-intentioned activists looking for leaks of private information or other online security holes. [Auernheimer's] case hasn't received much attention so far, but should he be found guilty this week it will likely become well known, fast.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/20/2040207/jail-looms-for-man-who-revealed-att-leaked-ipad-user-e-mails