Score Another One for the Good Guys
Posted by Doug Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:41:00 GMT
See, when you get those lawyers and judges out of the way, juries often do the right thing. The Register is reporting that Stefan Puffer has been aquitted by a jury on “two counts of unauthorized access into a protected computer system and unauthorized access of a computer system used in justice administration.” If found guilty Puffer could have served five years in jail and be subject to a $250,000 fine. The original insident occured when Puffer (who used to be a technology contractor or employee for the Justice Department) demonstrated in public to a reporter and a county official how insecure their wireless network was. Instead of just fixing the problem that Puffer innocently pointed out, the county prosecuted him. The prosecution was simply a case of shooting the messenger. Thank goodness a jury can saw through it.
