> Tinley's chances for a no prison sentence are slim. In 2006, a former UBS PaineWebber worker was sentenced to eight years in prison for planting a logic bomb

> Tinley's chances for a no prison sentence are slim. In 2006, a former UBS PaineWebber worker was sentenced to eight years in prison for planting a logic bomb on the company's network and betting its stock would go down. I don't know if the courts will see it the same way, but to me it seems that Tinley's crime is a lot less severe. That other case was stock manipulation, which has the potential to cause much larger losses for other uninvolved parties. The only effects of Tinley's action is stealing his fee directly from Siemens plus whatever loss results from the spreadsheets briefly not working (which couldn't have been that great if they didn't just get them rewritten).