U.S. Admits Convicted Man Is No Hacker (only a whistleblower)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-squirrel16oct16,1,1837317.story?coll=la-home-todays-times

Federal prosecutors this week abruptly changed the label they had hung next to Bret McDanel's name, turning him from criminal hacker into innocent whistle-blower.

In an extraordinary reversal approved by top Justice Department officials, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to strike down a conviction it won last year against McDanel.

McDanel's crime: warning customers of an e-mail company he once worked for about a flaw that could let other people read their messages.

Online rights activists hailed the Justice Department move as a rare piece of good news in the escalating fight between free speech and technological security.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Can you imagine the hell this guy has endured?

Make no mistake, this could happen to ANYBODY in this bogus Ashcroft post 9/11 hysteria terrorist witchhunt.

[hedda_foil]

2. This sounds like it could have BIG implications for BBV

[JackSwift]

3. The prosecutors should have discovered this very early on

I hope the guy sues the complaining witness.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. It wasn't in the best interest of the DOJ prosecuters

Their job is to prosecute, whether or not the guy did anything
made no difference.

This is exactly what those guys are facing in Camp Delta. And probably many of us in the future.