alt Hacker NewsI'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet.
This helps to fill in some of the details. It's a really nice story showing the humanity that can be found in situations when you look close.
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mindcrime • today at 1:30 AM
Call me nostalgic or whatever, but my laptop to this very day...
firefax • today at 12:42 AM
>I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet.
A generation of hackers (specifically, the vBulletin generation) stayed as far away from the CFAA as possible after that fiasco, which I suspect is exactly the chilling effect that the DOJ intended.
At DEF CON and related events now, you commonly see stickers saying "PUT KEVIN BACK".