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6-Month Sentence for NASA Cracker
lunartik noted an AP story running on a 6-month sentence given to
Gregory Aaron Herns for cracking into the computer system at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 'Herns told federal agents he was looking for computer space to store movies he'd downloaded. It took hours for technicians to find the problem, fix it and patch the system's security holes.'"
That's nice, but as my last post (in a diff thread) mentioned, the REST of the world besides slashdot just says "hacker" means "computer criminal". Everyone needs to accept that only a tiny fraction of a percent of the world-wide population of english-speakers acknowledges any distinction between hacker/cracker. Its a dead distinction.
"Stumble before you crawl"
Uh, no, the same world doesn't make those mistakes. I'm talking about the 99.9% of the english SPEAKING population of the world. I'm not even talking about their spelling skills, or anything they're doing online. I'm talking about their english lexicon: almost no one on the planet makes the distinction, which means its just a bit of jargon relative at best to one technical field. People in that field shouldn't expect the broad english-speaking world to use all their jargon. No other field has that same expectation.
"Stumble before you crawl"
You are the moron. What if the hacker was in Korea. Would you vote to attack the country in order to have him face a judge?
I work for a fire department. I'd kill for a day when spectators were in my way and refused to move. After all, if you park in front of a fire hydrant, policy's to run the hose THROUGH your car.
Around here, it's policy to throw bricks at firemen.