How Do You Punish a 16-year-old Spammer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 24, 2006 @04:12AM from the with-a-nice-slow-cooked-long-pig-roast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 16 year old 'Boy Spammer', David Lennon, has been told by a judge that as punishment for his crimes he can't leave his bedroom for two months during curfew. CNET thinks this is no punishment at all: "With the streets awash with axe murderers, terrorists and paedophiles, staying in and playing games seems like a reasonable response. Given that our kids are growing up as stay-in gamers, the Boy Spammer's curfew is no more punishment for the blighter than sentencing a boy caught speeding to two months on a race track." Apparently Lennon used a piece of email bombing software called Avalanche to wreak revenge on his ex-employer, Domestic and General Group. His five million emails contained the message "You will die in seven days.""

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No crime at all by ghettoimp · 2006-08-24 04:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"CNET thinks this is no punishment at all"

He hardly did anything. Being grounded for two months seems pretty reasonable.
Re:Maybe this was just me.. by Flamekebab · 2006-08-24 05:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If he uses Windows, remove his PC and install Windows ME on it. If he uses Linux, wipe it and give him a Gentoo disc.