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Disgruntled Fan Arrested, Indicted For Spam Attacks
An anonymous reader submits: "A *very* interesting precedent here might get set here. A California man has been arrested by the FBI for sending spam spoofing the From: email address of several Philadelphia-area newspaper editors and writers. The charges relate to the damage caused by having the bounces sent back to the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, with a total of more than 160,000 bounced emails. Maximum penalties: 471 years in federal prison, $117 million in fines." And not just arrested, either -- Reader red_dragon points to the indictment (PDF linked from this U.S. Attorney's Office release).
I highly recommend following the DOJ links to the indictment. This guy hacked into other computers to send out tens of thousands of bogus emails that caused massive boucebacks to the victims. Sure, the "maximum" sentences look absurd, but that's where the interesting part of this case will come in. The guy clearly needs to have the book thrown at him, and spend some time in "federal, pound-me-in-the-ass prison." Just how much remains to be seen...
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You know if the guy just went on a killing spree, he probably would have gotten less jail time. Makes you think how valuable your life is in the eyes of government.
here in lies the redicilousness of the laws....
as the laws are now.. If I were in that guy's shoes, I'd arm myself to the teeth, and plan on killing a very large number of cops,agents,people etc while running to another country and robbing banks to get the funds I need to escape.
why? because the above possibility of jail time plus fines gives me no other choice but to become extremely dangerous and escape.
The problem is that one of these time's it's going to happen.. a "cracker" is going to get fingered and when facing the possibility of 1000 years in jail and 22 trillion dollars in fines he's going to kill a crapload of cops, ATF agents, FBI, etc... I.E. that person was just forced by the government to become an extreme danger to society over a very VERY minor criminal act.
Murder and Bank robbery is a minor crime now compared to ANYTHING done with a computer or the internet.
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"Your honor, I don't think I can do 471 years"
"That's O.K. son, just do what you can."
Personaly I think if we execuited a few hundred spammers, put their heads on stakes, and took their families out of the gene pool too, it would send a pretty clear message to the rest of them and the problem would go away.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
This is seriously exactly what we need to solve the spam problem. Send as many of these bastards as possible to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
You can't argue with this one: There's no way they'd be hawking penis-enlargement pills after that.
I love this line of 'logic'... anytime someone says something you don't agree with it, fail to argue the facts and just throw in a bunch of Nazi quotes that take the same position.
After all, what your implying is that Clark is a Nazi interested only in world domination and the complete extinction of the Jews, cripples, and the mentally deficient.
Unbeleivable.. how about choosing to deal with a position with an actual argument, instead of knee jerk reactions to a regime whose interest in gun control was self-security and not a legitimate belief in a safer society. I long for the days when conservatives where able to participate in actual debate, without relying solely on emotional appeals and sensationalistic crutches..
I guess debate is for those evil liberals.
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