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> I honestly feel that in the current day and age, if anyone tried the same stuff many of us got away with in the early 2000s (or 90s), then the punishment woul

> I honestly feel that in the current day and age, if anyone tried the same stuff many of us got away with in the early 2000s (or 90s), then the punishment would be much much stricter. From poring over stuff from this milieu, I figured out how I could change grade records at my school. I never did it, so I don't know what would've happened if I got busted. Some kid in the Bay Area just got busted for the same and is facing 14 felony charges. Anyway. This was my first encounter with hacker culture, and it was so brain expanding even though I understood practically none of it. Now, I could barely recount more than the few sentences I just did, but that logo brings up waves of nostalgia.

some_account 8y ago
Because the American legal system is insane.
- peterwwillis 8y ago
  Yep. Teenagers who commit benign hacks for fun get more time than murderers. People's lives get ruined for effectively the digital form of trespass. It's pretty fucked up.
  - AckSyn 8y ago
    It's ridiculously sad. Back in the day getting caught for something ended up with a job offer, and I took it! These days or anything past 2005 it seems, will end up in criminal charges. It's disappointing, really.
  - jeffreyrogers 8y ago
    Do you have a source for people getting more time than murderers for "effectively the digital form of trespass". I agree that some parts of the legal system do not work very well, but I think that's a big exaggeration.
cbcoutinho 8y ago
Here's an article about the high school hacker extraordinaire [1]. My favorite line from the article has to be this one from the sergeant: > We wrote numerous search warrants to get the IP addresses of the possible phishing site email. We got it and we did good old fashioned police detective work and we narrowed it down to an address Good old fashioned police detective work indeed. [1] http://www.ktvu.com/news/concord-student-accused-of-hacking-system-to-change-grades-is-arrested http://www.ktvu.com/news/concord-student-accused-of-hacking-...

some_account 8y ago

Because the American legal system is insane.

peterwwillis 8y ago
Yep. Teenagers who commit benign hacks for fun get more time than murderers. People's lives get ruined for effectively the digital form of trespass. It's pretty fucked up.
- AckSyn 8y ago
  It's ridiculously sad. Back in the day getting caught for something ended up with a job offer, and I took it! These days or anything past 2005 it seems, will end up in criminal charges. It's disappointing, really.
- jeffreyrogers 8y ago
  Do you have a source for people getting more time than murderers for "effectively the digital form of trespass". I agree that some parts of the legal system do not work very well, but I think that's a big exaggeration.

cbcoutinho 8y ago

Here's an article about the high school hacker extraordinaire [1]. My favorite line from the article has to be this one from the sergeant: > We wrote numerous search warrants to get the IP addresses of the possible phishing site email. We got it and we did good old fashioned police detective work and we narrowed it down to an address Good old fashioned police detective work indeed. [1] http://www.ktvu.com/news/concord-student-accused-of-hacking-system-to-change-grades-is-arrested http://www.ktvu.com/news/concord-student-accused-of-hacking-...