Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters

GovTechGuy writes "The Obama administration wants hackers to be prosecuted under the same laws used to target organized crime syndicates, according to two officials appearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. From the article: 'Associate Deputy Attorney General James Baker and Secret Service Deputy Special Agent in Charge Pablo Martinez said the maximum sentences for cyber crimes have failed to keep pace with the severity of the threats. Martinez said hackers are often members of sophisticated criminal networks. "Secret Service investigations have shown that complex and sophisticated electronic crimes are rarely perpetrated by a lone individual," Martinez said.'"

Comments

While they're at it

[Cornwallis]

How about charging their fellow sociopaths - in the Administration & Congress - as mobsters?

Re:While they're at it

[Man On Pink Corner]

I only wish they would run the country like mobsters running their day to day operations. Mobsters usually deliver the paid-for product. Mobsters don't pretend they're doing God's work. Mobsters don't go out of their way to start gunfights with uninvolved parties, and they don't irradiate their own customers in the name of "security." Mobsters keep two sets of books like the government does, but unlike the government's, one of them reflects reality. Someone who loses 22 C-130 cargo planes full of Mob cash can expect to be held to account for it.

We aren't run by mobsters, we're run by idiots. This is why I have no patience for people like Warren Buffett who prattle on about how taxes need to be raised on "the rich." Why? So the government can lose 23 C-130s full of $100 bills next time?

Re:While they're at it

[artor3]

We do need to raise taxes on the rich, among other things. The fact that the government isn't efficient doesn't mean we should reduce our revenues. That would just make us inefficient and broke. This isn't a company where it can go out of business and be replaced by a new one, at least not without massive suffering and bloodshed.

We should try to get the government to run more efficiently, but we should also pay our bills in the meantime.

Re:While they're at it

[Oxford_Comma_Lover]

I only wish they would run the country like mobsters running their day to day operations. Mobsters usually deliver the paid-for product.

So does Congress. We just happen not to be their customer, except once every two to six years.

Re:Mobsters ... but only if there are more than on

[hrvatska]

Whenever someone is promoting a law that is overly broad they always assure the public that it will only be used to go after the meanest, most terrible, and reprehensible people. Next thing you know the law is being used to prosecute small fry. My favorite example is teenage girls being charged with distributing child porn for sending pictures of themselves to friends.

So, crackers are terrorists, .....

[WindBourne]

while bankers that have stolen BILLIONS, are friends? Hmmm. You crackers need to hire a lobbyist.