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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At least there is some punishment...

[mfarah]

Over here (Chile), a 15-year old script kiddie cracked a webhosting company (Meganet) [presumably abusing a very stupid security hole]. Guess what he got? A job... in the very same company as an apprentice.

At least, this Mafiaboy has gotten a "bad boy!" message...