Jarett Weintraub

California, US

Teacher

Sounds like a distorted story, regardless.

Okay, I'm not English, so my knowledge of UK reporting restrictions is nil. Regardless, it seems sloppy to me to say, for instance, that he was arrested after attempting an unauthorized access to the charity's webserver. It was an *unusual* access, but not objectively or definitively an unauthorized one. Shouldn't there be restrictions on making the prosecution's case too? How about "allegedly unauthorized" eh?

[Ed note: As you say - you've no knowledge of UK reporting restrictions so leave that to us. He has been charged with (and this is all in the official publicly released charge from London's Metropolitan Police) unauthorised (not 'unusual') access to the DEC Tsunami website in breach of section one of the computer misuse act. Those are the facts and that's what we've reported. Both sides of the argument will come out in court and we'll be there to report them but until then we'll leave the speculation to bloggers and chatrooms out there.]