Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women

redletterdave writes "According to the 30-count indictment released by the Central District of California, 27-year-old hacker Karen 'Gary' Kazaryan allegedly hacked his way into hundreds of online accounts, using personal information and nude or semi-nude photos of his victims to coerce more than 350 female victims to show him their naked bodies, usually over Skype. By posing as a friend, Kazaryan allegedly tricked these women into stripping for him on camera, capturing more than 3,000 images of these women to blackmail them. Kazaryan was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday; if convicted on all 30 counts, including 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft, Kazaryan could face up to 105 years in federal prison."

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Re:Won't come close to that

[shaitand]

20 years doesn't seem relatively mild. Any actual prison time seems relatively severe. A prison sentence means never being employed in a real job again and likely physical assault and rape. Does offending a few people's sense of modesty really justify doing that to someone regardless of how many people he did it to?

Some sort of small fine seems appropriate here. Maybe $500 that should be enough to discourage most people from this type of behavior.