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Photobucket Hackers Nabbed, Face Serious Charges From US Authorities
The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement released Friday that two men, Brandon Bourret, and Athanasios Andrianakis, of Colorado Springs, Colorado
and Sunnyvale, California, respectively, were arrested for their sale of software designed to breach the security of photo-sharing site Photobucket.com; their "Photofucket" app, says the linked Register report, was used "to plunder Photobucket's users' private and password-protected information, images and videos, it has been alleged ... The charge sheet against Bourret and Andrianakis details one count of conspiracy and one count of computer fraud, aid and abet – both of which carry a maximum prison sentence of five years and a fine of up to $250,000.
In addition, the men stand accused of two counts of access device fraud, which carries a higher prison sentence of up to 10 years and a fine of up to a quarter of a million dollars, per count." The indictment, filed in Federal District Court in Colorado, is far easier to read than many.
Take your sense of morality and shove it right up your ass. What about punishment fitting the crime? And what about this glaring double standard between the Fascist US Gov't who knowingly hacks systems all over the world bringing "justice" upon a couple twerps for doing the same thing they do? I don't hear anyone calling for them not to get their wrist slapped -- but 30 years in prison and a half million or more in fines? You have no morality at all if you think that is in anyway fair or just. And those who talk about the criminality of not being a decent human being usually turn out to be very disgusting and disturbed individuals.