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I'm surprised you say that. More significant crime than hacking an email account or "pwning" a government computer is committed everyday by teenagers in at leas

by alecco 18y ago

I'm surprised you say that. More significant crime than hacking an email account or "pwning" a government computer is committed everyday by teenagers in at least an order of magnitude more. From drug dealing to happy slapping. And the later even though is related to Internet (filming and uploading the video), it is just an amplification of a very old tradition, bullying. Nothing new. Instead of increasing the sentences and applying broken-window policies (a new form of fascism), the social problem needs first understanding and then defining good policies (from family level to national level.)

tptacek 18y ago
This is the same incredibly myopic belief I held until I was 19, when I got my first full-time sysadmin job. You have no idea how expensive it is for a company to lose a server root user to a teenager; it is, in the best case, several days of lost time. At a conservative FTE of $85k, a couple days of sysadmin time is over $1000. Do $1000 of damage to someone's house and see how the legal system treats you. That's the best case. I think it's you who doesn't understand the problem here. I stand by my assertion: it is worth considering that we have created a system that encourages dumb kids to incur thousands of dollars of civil liability and serious criminal liability.