Arizona Botnet Controller Draws 30-Month Federal Sentence

dgharmon writes with word from the BBC that "A U.S. hacker who sold access to thousands of hijacked home computers has been jailed for 30 months. Joshua Schichtel of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced for renting out more than 72,000 PCs that he had taken over using computer viruses." Time is cheap: Schichtel admitted to giving access to those 72,000 computers for $1500.

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Re:Hmmm

[Hatta]

And yet not one of the CEOs responsible for the epic fraud that crashed the world economy in 2008 has even been arrested, let alone charged and tried.

Re:Hmmm

[wbr1]

Typical. In Virginia, the low end for Grand Larceny is $200. You can spent 20 years in prison for picking up someones netbook.
On the other hand, you can raise funds from investors, buy up companies, bilk the assets as the companies sit neglected and die, the investors, and the emplyes all lose, thousands and jobs and homes and more, while the 'perpetrators' bilk off millions. And we call it 'business' and make it legal.