The common Unix-y utility “wget” used as evidence of guilt in the Manning trail.

This sort of thing follows from my post below. I’ve used wget probably 500 times in my life. It’s not a hacking tool. I can’t even see how it could be used as a hacking tool.

Criminalizing general purpose computing has long been a wish of the entertainment industry and others.

Amazing how the simplest tools that I use every day are seen as remarkable and inexplicable wizardry by the moron contingent.