I just pulled up the Los Angeles Times, and something literally resembling a copy-scan-fax machine plugged directly into a Wordpress site comes to mind. In rea

I just pulled up the Los Angeles Times, and something literally resembling a copy-scan-fax machine plugged directly into a Wordpress site comes to mind. In reading the transcript, it's clear this person deserves to be punished according to the maximum penalties prescribed by the applicable laws. It is not as clear to me that the laws being applied accurately reflect the harm incurred, or even the potential for harm given the nature of the compromised system.