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'Iceman' Gets 13 Years For 2nd Hacking Offense
Hugh Pickens writes "Computerworld reports that Max Ray Butler, who used the hacker pseudonym Iceman, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers, the longest known sentence ever handed down for hacking charges. This isn't Butler's first time facing a federal hacking sentence. After a promising start as a security consultant who did volunteer work for the FBI, Butler was arrested for writing malicious software that installed a back-door program on computers — including some on federal government networks — that were susceptible to a security hole. Butler served an 18-month prison term for the crime and fell on hard times after his 2002 release. In desperation, he turned again to cybercrime and by the time of his arrest in September 2007, he had built the largest marketplace for stolen credit and debit card information in the world."
There is always manual labor jobs.
As long as its not violent or involve children most manual labor jobs are ok with some spots on your record.
If you can tough it out for five years then you can start getting back into office jobs.
By the time that he got arrested if he had stayed clean he could have started to rebuild his life.
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Huh.
Is that some sort of pretentious arrogant French implementation of the American Hamburger? Does it have some sort of special bread, aged cheeses, fancy vegetables, and a sauce that took 20 minutes to make?
Huh Does it?
So.. where can I get one?
I hope that he has to serve the full sentence, and doesn't get out on parole. Credit card fraud is not fun. I can only hope that more people convicted of credit card fraud receive sentences like this.
Of course, let's also not look beyond root cause of this type of crime in the first place, and that's the fact that my dog can get a credit card these days.
Point here is if we didn't have such an addiction in this country to have credit cards resulting in mountains of debt, or insane amounts of questionable predatory practices by lenders, perhaps this wouldn't be such a lucrative nut to "crack".