A federal judge in Idaho appears to have had a fit of hacker madness. In a case involving a former employee and his bosses over software for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, federal district court Judge B. Lynn Winmill found the employee’s privacy rights could be ignored because he was a self-proclaimed hacker. The employee, Corey Thuen, formerly worked for Battelle Energy Alliance, which developed the cyberdefense software called “Sofia” for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.
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'Hacker Madness' Strikes Idaho Judge
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 29, 2013 08:50 AMA federal judge in Idaho appears to have had a fit of hacker madness. In a case involving a former employee and his bosses over software for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, federal district court Judge B. Lynn Winmill found the employee’s privacy rights could be ignored because he was a self-proclaimed hacker. The employee, Corey Thuen, formerly worked for Battelle Energy Alliance, which developed the cyberdefense software called “Sofia” for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.