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.

Comments

Bah!

[sys$manager]

Bah! I say to all of you! If you don't want to go to jail, DON'T BREAK THE LAW!

It only makes sense to me!

Juvenile

[Monte]

Folks, he's a kid. In the U.S. and Canada children (&lt18) have a different set of laws that apply to them. Check out this site, where I found the following:

Generally, the maximum prison sentence for a young offender is two years. It goes up to a maximum ofthree years for offences that could be punishable (for an adult) by life imprisonment, and for first degree murder it is now ten years, up to six years of which can be in an institution, with the remainder served in the community under supervision. For second degree murder, the total sentence can be up to seven years, with up to four years of it being served in the institution.

The idea is that a kid gets leeway because he's not mature enough to understand the consequnces of his actions. So stop wringing your hands about how he got off light, all kids get off light unless they're tried as adults.

The message to script kiddies is simple: Do it while you're young! Don't wait until your 18th birthday!

what about a record?

[issachar]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that because of his age, he gets his record wiped clean later. (You basically have to murder many people to make a permanent mark on your record when you're 17 in Canada).

Now that sucks! Anything like that should be a permanent part of your record. That's part of the problem with idiot teens like this. They know darn well that basically anything they do before 18 doesn't get punished or have any permanent consequences. (Course most are too stupid to stop when they turn 18).

Canada needs to ditch the Young Offenders Act and get something with some teeth. 'course I've been saying this since I was 15, but those bleeding heart idiots WHO LET TERRORISTS IN BECAUSE THEY WHINE THAT THEY'RE REFUGEES, aren't ever going to do anything.