Ex-soldier Googled “can hacking be treason?” pleads guilty
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File this one under what not to search if you’ve committed a crime A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump’s call logs, and then Googled “can hacking be treason,” and “US military personnel defecting to Russia,” pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms’ databases and extort at least $1 million.…

  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Wait. Who hasn’t? Hell, I’m guessing 99% percent of people on the planet (with Internet access) have Googled some variation of “Is [X] treason?” - especially in the last decade, FFS.

    I mean, sure, he’s a piece of shit doing piece of shit things, but the hook doesn’t bite. Padding pages? Eh. Convoluted clickbait.