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Mafiaboy Gets His Wrist Slapped
An anonymous reader writes: "Mafiaboy, the Canadian 'hacker' that did the DOS on Ebay, Amazon, Excite, CNN, etc. has gotten 8 months in a youth detention centre and 1 year probation. Prosecuters think this will be a message to 'hackers' that do this kind of thing. I say the message should be to the scriptkiddies who obviously don't know how to cover their tracks, to at least learn to do so before they download malicious software." The other message is that even if you get caught, your sentence will be ridiculously easy.
Depends on exactly where it is that he gets sent. The "detention" centre near where I live uses the "detainees" as labour to keep the 160 acre centre looking like a park. They maintain the gardens, fences, fields and forests in pristine park like conditions.
They are given the full provincial standard education. No skipping, no slacking.
I don't know if they learn anything or not. I guess that's up to them.
It certainly isn't something that this young fellow is going to enjoy.
The recidivism rate in Canada, last I checked, for these centres is less than 1/3.
Later . . . . . . WebBug
And of course once he turns 18 he losses all preivous criminal records. So a big company could hire him and have no way of know what he did as a kid.
Forever live the fighters!
For those of us who actually know him, he was/is an arrogant little prick and he got what he deserved.
I just wanted to point out that By canadian Juvenile law, the 8 month sentence plus probation the kid got is quite severe! And let's not forget that Yahoo, eBay and company never even bothered to try and prove during the trial that they suffered any losses at all!! I guess they figured out they wouldn't get any of their money back... What's a judge to do? Give 5 years when nobody's really complaining??
Financial penalties would not help anything. I, for example, am having a hard enough time just trying to make rent. Add an unreasonable amount to what I already owe and I may be forced to sell drugs just to cover the costs. That's definately not what anyone wants to see happen.
Financial penalties usually make things worse, not better.
Travis
www.lucernesys.comHorizon: Calendar-based personal finance
I've seen enough people who are unable to read this type of 'l337 sp34k' before so I'll translate:
Hello Lamers,
I am a 15 year old hacker/cracker, and I think that the sentence really sucks. I am more smarter than all you old fart punk sys admins combined. You fear my skills, I will ping nuke you and frag your ass in Counterstrike. I am elite. All your base are belong to us.
---===[[[{{ Neato Elite-O }}}]]]===--- [xRc]
Fear Maphiaboy!!!!!!
/s
/save
/exit
/qut
/quit
How do I save? This isn't pine! Grr!! grepping tarball.
No, he's not. Juvenile centers are nothing like jails. There are always educators with the kids, and bullies would not get away even with threatening to beat him up. They'd be brought back before a judge before they know it.
Most juvenile centers also have kids from the "Youth Protection Department" (DPJ in French) that have been taken from their families for their OWN safety. Therefore, the centers know very well how to protect their "residents".
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"I remember Y1K, every abacus had to get another bead"
Actually, in Quebec, that's a full year of school you'll actually be forced by a judge to attend every single of your classes. There is no calling in faking to be sick, the educators at the center know better. Instead of being withdrawn from society, you're being supervised and forced to face it, which gives pretty good results.
"I remember Y1K, every abacus had to get another bead"