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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."
post this shit anonymously you stupid bastard
At first I thought BTK stood for Big Thick Kock. I don't see what Dennis Rader has to do with anything though.
You are a sack of shit, spammer.
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.
Spammers cause so much grief for so many people (users and techs), that at the very least anal rape is mild. Frankly I'd want the perps sent to Iraq to do the missing step since they want to "PROFIT!!".
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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.
HE is a DUMB nigger!!!!!!
See, the point isn't that we want him to have an orgasmic good time in prison. Everyone who's wishing ass rape upon him, well, that's just the point. We want him to suffer as horribly as possible.
In fact, personally I'd even wish for a death sentence for that kind of thing. Does it seem disproportionate compared to the crime? Let's do some maths.
We're talking a scumbag who's caused 7 _billion_ spam mails to be sent. Even assuming it takes only a second to delete a spam mail (it takes more, but ok), then 7 billion seconds is 221.8 years he's stolen out of other people's lives.
Again, that's on a _very_ conservative 1-second-a-spam-mail rate. A more realistic estimate (including the unholy amounts of time spent configuring filters, dealing with false positives, help relatives clean their computer after they got 0wn3d by clicking on some spam link, etc, because of that spam) would be in the thousands of years range.
By comparison a murderer deprives someone of how many years? 20? 40? And we can hang someone for that.
What these spam/virus/phishing/whatever fucktards are doing is, if you will, the difference between stealing 1000$ from someone, and stealing 1$ each from 100,000 people. The collective time wasted and the damages done each year are in the same range as murdering several hundreds of people per year.
So why is everyone that horrified when one goes to jail for that? (Or when in this case we wish really horrible things happening to them there.)
Even leaving that kind of maths out, their deed against society isn't some mild victimless mis-demeanor. It's outright plundering and laying waste to a valuable resource, on a scale that makes the pirates of the Carribean look like mild mannered gentlemen. _And_ causing a _major_ waste of time and money to everyone, for a far lesser gain to themselves.
We're talking the kind of looter and pillager that causes billions in losses to gain maybe 1/1000 of that.
And so far I haven't even counted indirect damage, such as the fact that the resource as a whole has become a lot less useful or used. We're at the point where an email from a stranger, and doubly so one with an attachment or from another country, is more likely to get deleted than read, and some people argue for mass-blocking whole countries off the net. We had a valuable communication resource, and these fucks polluted it until it became all but useless.
So why is it that wrong to want bad things to happen to them? I know, it's not nice, it's not humanitarian, etc. But they _are_ doing very bad things to all of us as a whole, so, well, it's not hard to end up wishing some nasty things would happen to them in return.
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Just don't agree to the freaking test.
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I'm becoming less defined as days go by Fading away, well you might say I'm losing focus Kind of drifting to the abstract In terms of how I see myself Sometimes I think I can see right through myself Less concerned about fitting into the world Your world that is Cause it doesn't really matter any more (no it doesn't really matter anymore) No it doesn't really matter any more None of this, really matters any more Yes I'm alone, then again I always was As far back as I can tell I think maybe it's because you were never really real to begin with I just made you up to hurt myself And it worked...yes it did There is no you! There is only me There is no you! There is only me There is no fucking you! There is only me There is no fucking you! There is only me Only Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye And it turned out to be a scab And I had this funny feeling Like I just knew it's something bad I just couldn't leave it alone I kept picking at the scab It was a doorway trying to seal itself shut But I climbed through Now I am somewhere I am not supposed to be And I can see things I know I really shouldn't see And now I know why, ya now I know why Things aren't as pretty, on the inside There is no you! There is only me There is no you! There is only me There is no fucking you! There is only me There is no fucking you! There is only me Only
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