Andrew "weev" Auernheimer is serving a 41-month sentence for visiting a publicly available webpage and revealing that AT&T had not secured its customers' sensitive financial information. Now, weev's lawyers are appealing, and in the opening day's arguments, Assistant US Attorney Glenn Moramarco admitted I don't even understand what [Auernheimer actually did.]" Then he compared it to blowing up a nuclear power-plant.
Assistant AG admits he doesn't understand what Weev did, but he's sure it's bad
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Man detained after playing Imperial March to troops in D.C. wins "substantial" settlement
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