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10 years for breaking election law + 14 years for "using a computer"?

• senectus1 6y ago
  for some reason breaking a law without using a computer is a lot less a punishment. figure out how to mug someone via computer and you'll go away for a long time.
  • smt88 6y ago
    Ransomware is similar to computerized mugging, and it indeed has a much greater penalty than actual mugging.
    • sterlind 6y ago
      Plus you can mug hospitals, police departments, companies and municipal governments! The analogy isn't perfect though; mugging carries a risk of bodily harm that ransomware doesn't (besides against hospitals.)
• smt88 6y ago
  My only defense of this is that software is intended to amplify work. Just like you could do bookkeeping 1,000x faster with a computer vs. paper, you can commit election-related crimes 1,000x faster if the computer does the calling for you.