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.

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8 months is severe by Canadian Law

[myamid]

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??

Globe and Mail Article

[tb3]

Here's another article from the Globe And Mail that has a little more detail, and describes the terms of his parole.

Re:I dunno...

[CaptJay]

He's going to get the shit kicked out of him regularly, I would surmise. That's a pretty hard sentence for running some other idiot's code.

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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Re:eight months is easy?

[CaptJay]

that's a full year of school you'd have to miss, and take again with kids 2 years younger than you. and a year after _that_ you still wouldn't be able to leave the state or be out after curfew.

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 Instead of being withdrawn from society, you're being supervised and forced to face it, which gives pretty good results.