Hacker who helped find Steubenville rapists threatened with decade in prison A security consultant who helped uncover evidence of the repeated rape of an Ohio teenager has been raided by the FBI and charged with offenses that could see him spend 10 years in prison. Last year, a 16 year-old girl from Steubenville, Ohio was repeatedly assaulted by members of the local football team, dubbed Big Red, after …
When the Ohio Attorney General's office has to take extraordinary action to become involved in a local prosecution, nothing about a case is normal. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation can take action to investigate in cases where something is perceived to be wrong with the local investigation. The Governor himself can order removal proceedings against any county Sheriff and any county's Prosecuting Attorney under Section 3.08 of the Ohio Revised Code if necessary for the causes listed in Section 3.07 of the Ohio Revised Code. Legal mechanisms exist within Ohio's legal structures to deal with many of the issues that episode brought up instead of the drama that played out in the news even to the north in Cleveland.
This was not really a matter of "if" but rather "when". As it crossed a state line since the security consultant was based in Kentucky and the target was based in Ohio, FBI has primary jurisdiction within our federal republic. The case would likely go to a federal district judge in Kentucky in this instance since that is where the arrestee lives.
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Home of the Brave (football players)
Land of the free (to commit vile crimes)
This story makes me want to puke, it's the poorest taste ever that law enforcement would rather protect a bunch of rapist jocks rather than prosecute them for something so vile. And at the same time try to terrorise a hacker for exposing this to the world.
"Is it a crime if it's done to uncover evidence of a crime?" Yes. It is a further crime to gain unauthorised access to a website and replace or deface it, even if you are posting evidence of a crime. That's the crimes we know happened - how many phones and/or email accounts of innocent boys got hacked looking for the evidence?
They are not worried about rapists, rapists don't hurt "da man".
They worry about hackers, hackers can hurt "da man".
The solution, rape the FBI goons and put that video on the web. If the goons don't want their children to see that, they shouldn't have been protecting rapists. "But I was only following orders" went out of style at the Nuremberg trials.
Oh, and don't forget to send them an invoice for a "crash course in empathy".
The will become better people and the world will become a better place.
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