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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."
At first I thought BTK stood for Big Thick Kock. I don't see what Dennis Rader has to do with anything though.
AOL dude went to jail, big fucking deal. You probably worded your summary badly, considering you're a big enough loser to bitch about it afterwards.
How can you be 100% sure that his actions directly or indirectly physically harmed no one?
Maybe a kid got kicked by his father after him catching him looking at porn he was viewing because he clicked a mail by accident.
Or maybe it was someone at work, who then got fired, got divorced and killed himself.
Maybe someone met a spammer and the street and kicked his ass. (my preferred)
Maybe someone got stressed by the hundreds of spams he received and had a car accident.
After all there was *only* 92 million email adresses.
And to finish. He will be in jail. He got what he deserved. And he gets harmed, it will be because of HIS actions. So his crime definitively had the potential to harm someone. HIM.
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This is a typical story of the little guy getting the shaft.
TFA said he made a third of the 86k the judge ended up fining him. A third. So his salary was somewhere in the ballpark of 28 to 30k per year.
Dude was poor. Particularly for a software engineer. Why else do you think he made a grab at all those screen names for a measly 28k? So he could come up a little bit or pay off his student loans (assuming he had any). Maybe his grandpa had cancer and he was trying to help. You never know about people's motives in harmless crimes like this.
So the poor underpaid "engineer" (and I bet the article uses that word liberally) sells screen names, ends up in a shitstorm, and doesn't have the money to hire a great lawyer to bail himself out. This REALLY suggests that he was poor. What did he do with the money he received? Spent it all? I know AOL's lawyers are rabid attack dogs but still, he should've fenced his crime a little or covered his tracks.
At the end of the day, it's just a damn shame that this is considered justice. That guy was just a gear in the machine, and the spammers themselves (Mr. Dunaway of Las Vegas) just have charges 'pending'. You all know what that means. The lawyers already stepped in to protect Dunaway.
Just don't agree to the freaking test.
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