Out of what hole did Andrew Auernheimer and his gang of iPad hackers crawl?
The iProphet. Source: iTunes Store
The hacker ethic has taken a long downward slide since Steve Levy traced it back to its roots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his classic "Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution" (1984).
But few have dragged it deeper in the mud than Andrew Auernheimer, 24, a member of the Goatse Security gang that claimed responsibility for pulling the device IDs and e-mail addresses of more than 114,000 iPad owners through a hole in AT&T's (T) network.
Auernheimer's arrest as reported by CNET earlier this week on felony drug charges is the least of it. We know plenty of good people who have been charged with possession of cocaine, Ecstasy, LSD, and schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals.
But it takes special kind of ignorance to produce The iProphet -- the 12 racist, antisemitic and frankly lunatic podcasts still available for download, as Edible Apple first reported, on Apple's (AAPL) own iTunes Store.
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