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Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the forward-to-the-big-house dept.

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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  1. Lucky guy by igny · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He has got just 1 second of jail per 175 emails.

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    In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
  2. Lemme get this straight by DSP_Geek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Kevin Mitnick prowls around some machines, steals nothing, damages nothing, yet spends four years in jail waiting for his trial, gets a five year sentence, and has to stay away from computers for another few years, while this fucknuts steals a subscriber list for spammers and gets a slap on the wrist? Doesn't even have to stay away from other people's mail servers? Riiight.

  3. Re:Why jail? by value_added · · Score: 5, Interesting

    just don't let the guy declare bankruptcy (another thing I've never really understood)

    Such debts can't be discharged in bankruptcy court.