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. "
Intelligence eclipsed by hate (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Timothy McVeigh (Score:5, Informative)
Marvin Heemeyer is the man though..
"Outraged over the outcome of a zoning dispute, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004, to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado. The rampage ended when the bulldozer got stuck in the basement of a Gambles store he had previously destroyed. Heemeyer then killed himself with a handgun." (See here [wikipedia.org].)
Truly a 'Merkin hero.
Bitcoin dwarfs Dogecoin (Score:2, Informative)
1) 28,296 Dogecoin is only worth about $13.
2) He doesn't want government-issued currency because he feels this would be paying into the system that oppressed him, and Bitcoin is the most popular private currency.
3) Dogecoin changed their money supply from fixed to infinite this year, so it's probably not safe enough to store millions of dollars. It's more of a joke/tip currency.
Re:Clearly they've broken him and... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:A fifth horseman (Score:4, Informative)
neither of them killed anybody.
Stack killed one other person besides himself. He seriously injured many more, and intended to kill them.
stack stole a tank from a military base in san diego ...
No he didn't. [wikipedia.org] He crashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas.
You have him confused with Shawn Nelson [wikipedia.org].