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Didn't Weev have a legitimate AT&T account? Isn't that how he discovered the vulnerability in the first place? Seems to me that would make him part of the "AT&T community" to whom the site was open to.

But ignoring all that, the definition of what is open to the general citizenry and what is open to the people representing the government are two distinct things.

This is a very recent example where the law is pretty explicit about what the cops can do versus what the public at large can do:

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/15419/exclusive_activi...




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