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Since when is a crime measured in megabytes?
by Narkov 13y ago
Since when is a crime measured in megabytes?
- sliverstorm 13y agoYour Honor, while my client did indeed steal billions of dollars from the defendant's bank account, the balance of the account was represented as a 64-bit value. That makes this a crime of only 0.0625KB; I suggest a slap on the wrist
- gruseom 13y agoThe degree of harm caused is often a factor in measuring a crime, especially when it comes to sentencing. As Garry points out, 8 years for this is crazy.
- cocoflunchy 13y agoWell it is 1 year per megabyte... seems perfectly fair to me!
- troels 13y agoNow, that'll teach people to be concise!
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- davidw 13y agoStuxnet is apparently half a megabyte.
- gruseom 13y agoDo you think it's plausible that 8 MB of source code, consisting of modified open-source libraries, represented a theft of critical Goldman Sachs secrets?
- Tyrannosaurs 13y agoWithout knowing how much of that 8Mb was proprietary and what the nature of the proprietary code is it's impossible to say. It could be massive over kill, it could be lenient.
- lmm 13y agoYes. Absolutely. 8MB is a hell of a lot of code.
- TheAnimus 13y agoYes. One 'trade secret' I worked on was about 30 lines of code, in C#. I later turned it in to about 100 bytes of x86... Some of the trade secrets in quant models can just be the weights.
- gschiller 13y agoSize != Functionality