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Russian Snared By The FBI Sentenced To 3 Years
Mark Cantrell writes "Vasiliy Gorshkov, one of two Russian crackers who were arrested in November 2000 after the FBI broke into their computer systems were sentenced Friday. Taking pity on Gorshkov's family, they sentenced Gorshkov to 3 years in prison and a fine of nearly $700,000 USD. They also mention how a U.S. judge found that the FBI wasn't breaking any laws in breaking into a Russian computer system, despite the fact that they were breaking a Russian law doing so. So apparently, it's ok for Americans to break Russian law if they're in the U.S., but not ok for Russians to break U.S. law, even while in Russia."
The russian BROKE the law.
The CIA set his ass up AFTER he broke the law.
And then the russian came over here, probably with a smirk thinking 'hehe, I rip them off, now I get job'.
Then he got busted.
I applaud the CIA. And it isn't like the CIA scanned every computer in Russia. They went after the thief.
If you're comparing the policies of Iraq with those of Israel, you are out of your fucking mind.
Israel may have problems, but it is a *democracy* with free elections and free speech, it has never used weapons of mass destruction against its neighbors or its own people, and has only "invaded" its (and I laugh at this term) "neighbors" to prevent its own destruction.
If you wanted to condemn a country for ignoring UN resolutions, having weapons of mass destruction, expanding its territory through violence and bloodshed, and treating ethnic groups badly, not to mention being lead by a nasty man, you could have picked the US itself.