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Single digits is still excessive, we are talking 5 or 6 years in jail for crimes which were void of any financial gain. I'm thinking g of weev and swartz who ar
by celticninja 10y ago
Single digits is still excessive, we are talking 5 or 6 years in jail for crimes which were void of any financial gain. I'm thinking g of weev and swartz who are both dealt with in the article.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/41-months-weev-understanding-how-sentencing-guidelines-work-cfaa-cases-0 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/41-months-weev-underst...
- tptacek 10y agoI agree†. Sentences in general are too long. I don't think there's a corrective goal that a 5 year sentence for a non-financial computer crime that isn't served just as well in 1. † With the nit that I don't believe a 5 year sentence would be in the cards for this particular offender.
- celticninja 10y agoI'm not so certain, his targets meet the "official victim" requirement, they will be free to choose the loss value which is unlikely to be Conservative, means of identification is likely met as it is a simple as accessing email addresses and even though they attacks have been called simplistic and the weaknesses well known they will claim that sophisticated means were used by virtue of a computer being involved. This on the face of it seems worse than weev as there were multiple targets involved.
- tptacek 10y agoHe's not the first person to get caught hacking the USG, and thus far insane sentences haven't been a consequence of that sort of thing. We'll see, I guess.