First Aaron Schwartz, now Andrew Auernheimer. Andrew, a broke & bankrupt geek, has been jailed for 41 months for releasing the email addresses of hundreds of thousands of iPad owners – demonstrating that Apple hosting these confidential details on a public & unsecured server. He’s been live-tweeting his jail term.
And if you’d like to know how revered this fellow is in the Internet community, read his interview with Asher Wolf, an activist.
Andrew Auernheimer – or Weev, as much of the Internet knows him – was found guilty of incrementing a number on a url – doing basic arithmetic – and has been ceremoniously chucked behind bars for the next 41 months of his life – as a result of speaking up to point out a security problem.