Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge

dgharmon writes with this excerpt from rt.com: "A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the computers of Stratfor. Judge Loretta Preska told Hammond in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he could be sentenced to serve anywhere from 360 months-to-life if convicted on all charges relating to last year's hack of Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, a global intelligence company whose servers were infiltrated by an offshoot of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. Hammond is not likely to take the stand until next year, but so far has been imprisoned for eight months without trial. Legal proceedings in the case might soon be called into question, however, after it's been revealed that Judge Preska's husband was a victim of the Stratfor hack."

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Soviet vs American justice

[leereyno]

Had this happened in the old Soviet Union he would have gotten life in prison as well. A short life, punctuated by a bullet to the back of the head.

But because this is America, my tax dollars are going to spent keeping him alive for the next several decades. Either kill him, or deliver a cost-effective but brutal punishment such as will discourage anyone else from pulling the same crap he did.

Seems to me that the best punishment would be a year or so in prison with the most violent and vicious criminals our society has to offer. If that doesn't discourage him from his black-hat activities then nothing will. A few before and after pictures (of both his face and anus) posted online should do the trick.

Re:Soviet vs American justice

[leereyno]

I'm quite serious. Cases like this one reveal a severe flaw in our criminal justice system. The cost/benefit ratio of locking this guy up for the rest of his life just does not compute. It costs tens of thousands of dollars each year to keep someone locked up. Multiply that over the course of 4 or 5 decades and the price tag just isn't worth it. We're 16 TRILLION in the hole, and counting. We quite simply can't afford to give life sentences to every asshole who comes along. There are people who need to be kept in a cage till the day they die. Rapists murderers, child molesters, etc, etc. This guy isn't one of them. Yet at the same time a slap on the wrist simply encourages others out there like him to do the same thing he did.

Seems the best solution is one that severely punishes him, and IS SEEN TO BE SEVERELY PUNISHING, but doesn't cost a whole lot. A year with Bubba is a good cheap alternative.

Re:Nullified

[Anonymous Coward]

This is what happens when 12 year olds or people with the intellect of a 12 year old posts on Slashdot.

A total train wreck.

Re:Life?

[sgt scrub]

I'll try to catch you up since you've obviously been in a comma for a while. Reagan won, his VP's son trashed the economy and started a couple wars, and in between the clan industrialized a few of their pet projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_complex

Re:Hacking is now Terrorism?

[Anonymous Coward]

Frankly, right now, I'd regard ANY member of Anonymous -- which recently fought along side the genocidal terrorist group, Hamas, against the tiny Jewish state of Israel -- as a potential terrorist.

Startfor hacking seemed, in the past, like a political abberation. Hacking in support of Hamas however, is much more clear-cut, and reveals Anonymous to be nothing more than a loose collection of pro-terrorism, brownshirt scum.