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This is very sad, such a bright young man. The state took away his entire world, his community, friends, all in one swoop. Hopefully the authorities in western

• throwawaygh 5y ago
  He was sentenced to either community service or 240 days in prison. Presumably the intention and expectation was for him to do the community service. For some reason he chose jail. Community service seems like a pretty reasonable punishment for attacking computer systems at a university and an ISP... > The state took away his entire world, his community, friends, all in one swoop. I mean... it sounds like his entire world/community/friends were mostly bonding over criminal mischief. Oh, and one of those "friends" reported him to the police. Even by criminal gang standards those aren't real friends! I'm not really convinced that he wouldn't have headed down the same path even without his run-in with the law. Honestly, at least from the US perspective, the entire thing sounds like it was handled extremely well by the criminal justice system in the Netherlands. A bunch of community service seems pretty reasonable for such serious criminal trespass... and it sounds like they didn't charge him at all for various other criminal acts (e.g., launching DDoS attacks against sites whose owners he didn't like).