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Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly
Bendebecker writes "Cnet is reporting: 'The nation's largest group of defense lawyers on Wednesday published a position paper arguing that people convicted of computer-related crimes tend to get stiffer sentences than comparable non-computer-related offenses.' Finally, someone is listening..." The document makes the points that most computer crime cases involve disputes between an employer and employee, and that the seriousness of the offense is generally comparable to white-collar fraud cases.
There's strength in numbers - and the lawyers finally realized that geeks are the only people as universally unpopular as they are.
I don't want them making any public statements on my behalf...
Your behalf, eh? That's admission of guilt, get him boys.
"Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil." -Philips
Note To Self: change plans from hacking to fraud.
-You're wasting your time. Alfador only likes me.
And defacing the RIAA website probably counts as 'pbulic service'...
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I remember when there weren`t any specific computer crime laws on the books in the U.K. and prosecutors tried to charge the accused with theft of electricity.
You can't send all the president's friends to jail, who will he invite to his barbecues?
Wait, a large group of defense lawyers said that penalties are too tough for the types of cases they sometimes work on? Really?! Now why would they do that? </sarcasm>
Its not like it takes an order from the president with full access codes to launch a strike or anything. Just a dialtone and a modem from the computer that lauches the strikes.
Also he could of obstructed justice by using a walkman or radio because he could of turned it into a hacking device. The fbi needed to take these priveldges away as well so he can stare at the walls and do nothing in his solitary confiment for 7 months while still technically inocent I may add. I mean screw John Gotti. This man is clearly more dangerous to our whole American way of life.
Also look at economic sabatoge and espianage caused by Jon Johnson from reading his own personal dvd's? The RIAA and the BSA claimed they lost over 9 billion a year because of piracy. Its a shame and we all know that these kids and college students can easily afford adobe photoshop, 3dStudioMax and all of Nsync's and britney spears artistic masterpieces of great music which is worth every penny of the price so it must be piracy! We need to stop these so called terrorists before they kill every man woman and child on earth. Hopefully some hardware based solution will be the salvation towards the problem.
Do we want the whole ecomomy to fall apart and lose millions of jobs because of lenient sentancing? Somebody please think about our children.
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Too harshly? Why, in my day, after Prometheus stole fire and gave it to mankind, we chained the guy to a rock and had a giant bird eat out his liver every day. Now that's punishment!
-kgj
I think we should try a different approach to punishing crackers. I propose that we put them infront of their own personal computer which was confiscated by the feds with a non-working keyboard and mouse, and run tail -f on a few of their personal, or valued files while they are slowly being deleted. I can just imagine them crying as they watch their recently stolen visa credit card list disappear line-by-line, and then their pics of sarah michell gellar disappear scan-by-scan. Muahahahahaha As for real hackers, i'd say nothing would be worse then putting them in a closed room except for a oneway mirror, and a few monitors displaying just screen captures from around the IT dept they are in, specfically one that gets hacked alot. I can also imagine them crying watching all the terrible wiring and horrible system administration. Muhahahha (again)
You'd be in good company. There are currently two people there. One person who is actually a friend of mine in the big blue room (the reason he's there is a long and quite dull story). The second person posts stories about abusing small children. Remember Paedophiles use the Internet!
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A chilling effect on companies that send unsolicited bulk e-mail, huh? This has got to be the coolest chilling effect I've ever heard of!
And as far as the last sentence goes, don't we all know that Microsoft has been guilty of terrorism for a long time now?
WWJD? JWRTFA!
more year in prison than the average raper ?
I first read that as rapper and, you know what? It still made sense.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Hmmm, breakdown by OS:
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
So, hey, anally raping your boss after he/she fires you will give you 5 years, maybe as much as 7.. Wiping out thier servers (which can be replaced with backups in an hour) will give you 10 or more.
Think about it for a second, which one of those would really be more fulfilling to you, the disgruntled employee? Yeah, that's what I thought... See the system works!
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
So what, you vote. So do the Iraqis.
is that the term hacking sounds bad. It's what crazed men in hockey masks with machete's do to college coeds. What we need to do is change the term to something like "Fluffin' the Bunny". Who'd think that's bad?
Here's an example:
Stan was arrested for computer hacking.
Judge: Give him 15 years solitary.
Stan was arrested for Fluffin' the Bunny
Judge: That's so nice what you did for that bunny. You're free to go.
See, the difference.
Remember, Fluff the Bunny
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