Nearly six months after his arrest , one hacker pleaded guilty to charges that he exposed the e-mail addresses of over 100,000 AT&T iPad 3G users. It has been a year since Daniel Spitler and his compatriot, Andrew Auernheimer, coaxed Ma-Bell servers into delivering the products, with a brute force script they lovingly named the iPad 3G Account Slurper. The hacker’s plea agreement suggests a 12 to 18-month sentence, that’s much more lenient than the ten-year maximum we hear he could face. Spitler’s collaborator is seemingly still in plea negotiations with the prosecutor. Both men initially claimed they were just seeking to draw attention to a safety hole, but maybe next time they’ll consider carefully before embarking on such altruistic endeavors.
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