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Feds asked to stay away from Defcon hacker event

2013-07-11 14:10:21| CNET News.com

In the wake of revelations about the NSA's PRISM program, Defcon's founder tells the Feds that "we need some time apart." [Read more]

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Snowden trained as hacker while with NSA -- report

2013-07-05 20:39:03| CNET News.com

Snowden was taught all he needed to know about snooping into records while he was working for the NSA, according to The New York Times. [Read more]

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AT&T iPad hacker appeals conviction

2013-07-03 03:23:00| CNET News.com

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer argues that accessing a non-password protected portion of AT&T's Web site did not violate the law because the information was freely available on the Internet. [Read more]

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AT&T iPad hacker appeals conviction, long sentence

2013-07-02 14:25:04| InfoWorld: Top News

A U.S. man prosecuted for exposing a weakness in how AT&T handled the personal data of its iPad users filed an appeal on Monday of his conviction and 41-month sentence. Andrew Auernheimer, known as "weev," created an automated tool to extract the names and email addresses of 114,000 iPad 3G owners from AT&T's servers, which were used by customers to access their accounts. The information was later passed to the online news site Gawker.

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