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I'm sure Stephen Heymann and his ilk are working on a theory of how wget, curl, and some spiders are "burglarious tools."


In the Bradley Manning case, the prosecution laid a computer fraud charge on top of the espionage and other charges, based on Manning's use of wget.† They argued that, although Manning was authorized to access the files he disclosed, the fact that he used wget to download them constituted computer fraud, since he was not authorized to have wget on his computer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30...




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