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quoting nevent1q…8dra

Aaron is a problematic focus for CFAA reform because there's not any fundamental conduct in his indictment that a sane system wouldn't criminalize. Clearly when you physically go into a cabinet or closet or whatever to put a computer on someone's nonpublic network you're crossing a line. A very visible material line, and not some arbitrary line of configuration. I wish he hadn't killed himself, but that's more a statement on his personality than the conduct of the federal government. If you looked at the time of the initial deal feds offered him, he would have probably done 1-2 years had he just pled. And they had him dead to rights.

The DOJ's pursuit of Aaron was rude and overzealous, and perhaps a sane system would not have just given him a misdemeanor. But, let's be honest, he got fawned over so much because his parents are rich, well-connected Jews and he himself was a well connected media Jew. The messaging of Aaron's advocates was not "breaking into a closet and sticking a computer on someone's Ethernet should be legal" -- it was "these laws are for the goyim, and he shouldn't be prosecuted because he's one of us!" It was fundamentally untenable because they were arguing for a two-tiered system of law that the influential and wealthy should not be subject to.

At the same time Aaron was being prosecuted I was too, and unlike him, I did not kill myself like a bitch. I took my case to trial, and appealed, and won, and established fundamental precedent that has been cited in dozens of cases. The precedent I forged with the sacrifice of my own life and flesh has actually gotten people out of prison, and is currently the basis of the coming *en banc* appeal in US v. Sterlingov.

Unlike Aaron, the intelligence-aligned media and NGO ecosystem has not fawned over me after my actually successful bit of fighting. They have attacked me, my friends, my family, deplatformed me, barred me from retail banks and every kind of exchange that you can imagine, driven me from society, and taken everything from me that is not based on public key cryptography. You want to pursue the fight? Great. Give me money, resources, and manpower. Because Aaron didn't fight. He fled like a coward. I'm out here in the trenches, and Aaron's coethnics have done nothing but fight on the other side. Excuse me for being fucking sick of seeing this yid's face years later, after he killed himself and managed to drive CFAA reform down with him because it was cenetered around "Aaron's Law" and Aaron's conduct was obviously going to be criminal in literally every system of jurisprudence in the world, forever.