@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange
Post #4416606
2026-08-06 10:40 UTC
@troed@swecyb.com @dangillmor@mastodon.social doesn't appear to be true. Of course you think you do? Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91 (1945). A Georgia sheriff beat Robert Hall to death in the courthouse square. Convicted. The Supreme Court, like you seem to want here, invented a specific-intent requirement, he was acquitted on retrial, and in 1958 Georgia elected him to the state senate. That intent doctrine gutted federal police-violence prosecutions for decades. So yes, I know how intent is evaluated. It's evaluated generously for the KKK and corrupt labs, and yet strictly for teenagers. Morris settled attribution because, just like OpenAI/Anthropic, it says the code's accesses are the liability of the launch person. Screws is what I said before. The intent defense has a documented history as a lever built for impunity, and reaching for it here repeats the pattern whether you know the history or not.
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@troed@swecyb.com 2026-08-06 11:54
@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange If you're actually interested in the legal conundrum rather than playing on the Intarnetz you'll find a good discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/s/0qer3Nf8fA @dangillmor@mastodon.social