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Steubenville Hacker Faces Longer Prison Sentence Than the Rapists

Posted by timothy on from the well-that's-proportional dept.

joeflies writes "In a previous Slashdot article, hackers worked to preserve content for the Steubenville rape case. The two football players charged received juvenile detention sentences of one and two years. One of the hackers, on the other hand, faces 10 years in prison."

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  1. Aghast by zeigerpuppy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am literally speechless.

  2. dat justice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So... hacking into a fratboy's fb account is a more serious charge than raping the everloving shit out of someone?

    Any tips on bulk-order condoms and hockey masks?

    1. Re:dat justice by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Keep in mind that "Significant harm" usually means the victim now has to spend lots of money upgrading the security that they never had in the first place. Because, after all, they would never had needed that if it wasn't for said hacker right?

  3. Juveniles get different sentences to adults. by blarkon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Juveniles get different sentences to adults. "Vigilante Hacker" is an adult and the reported possible sentence is "maximum possible" which is quite different to "an actual sentence".

    1. Re:Juveniles get different sentences to adults. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "Juveniles" who commit "adult" acts of rape . . . aren't really "juveniles" any more.

      --
      Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
  4. Re:This is SO WRONG !! by quenda · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could be worse. If the hackers had exposed government coverup of murders, they would be tortured and charged with a capitol crime.

    Lets spare a though for Bradley Manning here, whose torture and trial have barely rated a mention in the US media, unlike Steubenville.

    United States is NO LONGER the land of the free,

    Was it ever? Highest imprisonment rate in the world now, even worse than Russia.

  5. "could get" vs "did get." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    article is BS.. comparing "could get" vs "did get" and getting slashdot nerds in a lather for no valid reason as if they were impressionable rush limbuagh listeners.

  6. Such Reasonable Action by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From Mojo:

    At first, he thought the FBI agent at the door was with FedEx. "As I open the door to greet the driver, approximately 12 FBI SWAT team agents jumped out of the truck, screaming for me to 'Get the fuck down!' with M-16 assault rifles and full riot gear, armed, safety off, pointed directly at my head," Lostutter wrote today on his blog. "I was handcuffed and detained outside while they cleared my house."

    That's either an intimidation tactic or the geniuses at the FBI have seen too many Rambo reruns. A 12 person SWAT team to serve a search warrant on one person who they have no reason to believe is violent? If it was proportional, they would have sent an armored division to arrest the rapists. Somehow I doubt they did.

    1. Re:Such Reasonable Action by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's the ongoing paramilitarization of law enforcement.

      In my sleepy little city in a rural corner of my State, our 8-member police department has 2 armored vehicles, 28 fully-automatic machine guns, 2 grenade launchers, and routinely engages in military-style exercises on weekends where they set up Soviet-style checkpoints and violate peoples' civil rights. People have been bringing this up at city council meetings only to be told by the council members that this type of activity is necessary to keep us safe - the typical GOP line.

      Even my "Tea Party" congressman, who ran on the "Tea Party" platform, has been completely silent on the recent revelations about government spying on American Citizens, instead focusing his efforts on the GOP's scandal-du-jour, usually whatever bullet list of talking points Sean Hannity is vomiting on his radio show that day.

      All of it is paid for by the Federal Government's various drug and terrorism interdiction programs - and we're not even in a border state, unless you count the Atlantic Ocean to be a high-drug-traffic border.

  7. Juvenile sentencing is less than adult sentencing by GrumpySteen · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is nothing new. We, as a society, recognized long ago that children do stupid shit and sometimes shouldn't receive the full punishment for their actions.

    If the Steubenville rapists had been tried as adults (and I think they should have), they would have been facing up to 25 years in prison. Under certain circumstances, Ohio law allows for a sentence of life in prison for someone convicted of rape, too, but I don't think that applies to those two. As it is, they not only have their sentences, but they're going to be added to the sex offender list for anywhere from ten years to life. They're going to find it very difficult to find jobs and places to live while they're on that list.

    There's nothing shockingly disproportionate about a maximum of 10 years for hacking vs a maximum of 25/life for rape. You might argue about the specific numbers, but I think everyone will agree that rape is the more serious crime and Ohio law allows for more serious consequences, just as it should.

  8. Re:Survival vs Copping out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please lower your voice or you'll end up in Gitmo.

  9. sentence RECIEVED v maximum possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While you're not speaking, re-read the article or summary. They compare the sentence someone involved actually received to the maximum possible sentence any hacker could theoretically get. Most commonly, a first time offender "facing ten years" will end up with probation. At this point, we have no idea what punishment the hacker will get, if any at all.