Slashdot Mirror
Former Student Gets Year In Prison For College President Election Fraud
Gunkerty Jeb writes, quoting Threatpost: "A former Cal State San Marcos student was sentenced to a year in prison this week for election tampering by using keystroke loggers to grab student credentials and then vote for himself. Matthew Weaver, 22, of Huntington Beach, Calif., stole almost 750 students' identities to try and become president of the San Diego County college's student government. His plan went awry when the school's computer technicians noticed an anomaly in activity and caught Weaver with keystroke loggers as he sat in front of the suspicious computer."
He's small time, he cheated, he got caught and made an example of. If only we could have this sort of efficiency and insight into real politicians.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
Unlikely, they want the ones who don't get cought
If only they would take the real elections half as seriously, maybe then we'd regain a (small) measure of confidence in the election process.
The GOP. Duh.
Dems are neither intelligent nor ballsy enough for this sort of thing.
Diebold.
---
ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
The Dems. Duh
It's not that he rigged an election, it's that he stole and impersonated many students identities.
No matter where he did this, he stole people's credentials (illegally), and used it to access system (illegally).
CFAA is a federal statute, so he broke federal law -- and therefore gets federal prison.
I have no sympathy for him. None at all.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Dear AC... Sorry, don't listen to their drivel... Bigot? Sorry again... Legal immigrant from Peru... Ooops!
Exactly. This is hardly a case of a kid doing something stupid without thinking it through. This guy had plenty of time to examine his actions, he had plenty of opportunity to back out, and he was repeatedly shown that his actions had consequences. And yet, at every step of the way, he chose to proceed. Even after he was caught he chose to perpetrate a cover-up! These are not the actions of a silly kid, they are the actions of a criminal. This kid deserves the punishment he received.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
They want the ones with no sense of ethics or morality.
Actually, they probably want ones with a strong sense of ethics that can be bent in a direction of their choosing. You don't get nearly as hard work out of someone ethically unmoored as you do out of someone who is acting for a "greater good," and you get even more work out of someone who doesn't even see the lesser evil. Worse for the former, you may get junk data since they don't care enough.
No, no greater evil is committed than by those who believe they are doing a great good. There are plenty of people in this country that passionately believe the principle that only those who do wrong have something to hide and that privacy is nothing but a shield for criminals. That's a form of strong ethics, though it's one I'd disagree with.
Hire those people, and you're golden.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Or do you believe somebody putting a keylogger trojan on your computer should be legal?
Just because someone thinks the punishment is excessive, doesn't mean they think that the crime should be legal.
Likewise, just because someone thinks the punishment was excessive in one scenario, doesn't mean they'd think it excessive in other scenarios. You wouldn't punish someone for stealing a snickers bar as harshly as you would if they'd stolen an iPad, would you?
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-