Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months

n3hat writes "A former America Online software engineer was sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages, according to this A.P. story in the Baltimore Sun."

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Hypothetical Prison Conversation

[Anonymous Coward]

The setting: Prison cafeteria.

Prisoner #1: So what're you in for?
Prisoner #2: Aggravated assault. You?
Prisoner #1: Armed robbery. How 'bout you?
AOL Engineer: I stole 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and sold them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages.
Prisoners #1 and 2 inch away from AOL Engineer at the lunch table

So...

[Lally Singh]

How many years are AOL's management getting for... well, managing AOL.

What's his cellmate's name and address?

[www.sorehands.com]

I think we all should send his cellmate bottles of penis enlargment pills, viagra, cialis, cialis soft tabs, Jackrabbit vibrators, and everything else we get from spam.

All in the name of poetic justice.

Re:What's his cellmate's name and address?

[Eightyford]

There's no way in hell that I'm sending him the money I'm getting from my new Nigerian friend!

It should be here any day now...

Welcome

[dirtsurfer]

You've got jail!