AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail 449
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The notorious troll and hacker known as Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer spent 13 months in jail for exposing an AT&T security flaw. He was recently released when a federal court overturned the conviction on grounds of improper venue. Now, Auernheimer has penned an open letter to the Department of Justice in which he demands reparations for acts of 'fraud' and 'violence' carried out against him over the past three years. Those reparations must be paid in Bitcoin, he says — 28,296, to be exact. At current market value, that comes out to $13.7 million. The bombastic letter is titled 'Open letter to federal scum,' and was allegedly bcc'd to 'a few hundred journalists.' In it, 28-year-old Auernheimer writes that he calculated the sum owed to him based on his market value:"
A gem: "Know that all this wealth will be directed towards a good and charitable cause. I am building a series of memorial groves for the greatest patriots of our generation: Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer. You see, In the 'Special Housing Unit,' which is Bureau of Prisons codespeak for 'solitary confinement' and 'torture,' I had enough time to think about the current state of federal government. "
Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:5, Funny)
..he's now Weev 2.0 - now with added 'crazy'!
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:5, Funny)
No shit? You mean the same country's government who passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, put the Japanese into concentration camps, got people fired and blacklisted for their political beliefs, etc. is more than willingly to abuse its powers? Say it aint so!!!
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:2, Funny)
As Oscar Willde said to George Bernard Shaw (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah? Well you're a fucking idiot who knows nothing about everything.
Re:Bitcoin ? (Score:3, Funny)
Probably not his favourite word these days.
Re:As Oscar Willde said to George Bernard Shaw (Score:5, Funny)
That, sir, is a slanderous insult.
I can spell it perfectly well, I just can't fucking type for shit.
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:4, Funny)
So you are saying we need to chose the lesser of the two weevils ? :-)