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Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced To 24-Month Prison Term For Helping Anonymous (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The former Reuters journalist convicted last year for aiding the hacker group Anonymous has been sentenced to 24 months in prison today. Matthew Keys faced up to a possible 25 years for three counts of hacking. Keys will be on supervised release and he is set to surrender on June 15th. In October 2015, Keys was found guilty for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when he provided website login credentials to The Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Media-owned newspaper. In the past, he's worked for a companion Tribune property, KTXL Fox 40 in Sacramento, California, which gave him possession of the login information to the join content management system. As a result, Anonymous members altered one story on the Los Angeles Times website. He then went to work for Reuters, where he was fired from his position as social media editor after charges were filed in March 2013.
If you give someone the key to your neighbor's house (which you have as a trustworthy neighbor) and the guy you give the key to goes inside and takes a shit on their carpet, I don't think you'd be looking at 2 years in prison.
I think two years sounds about right to being complicit (in other words, an accessory) to what most states would call a home invasion of the third degree, which is a felony. Being complicit carries the same sentence as if you had committed the crime yourself. That could even count as a first degree home invasion since in some states, taking a shit in somebody's house is considered a crime of a sexual nature (in other words, a felony, hence upgrading the charge to first degree) and you'd be looking at much more than two years...probably somewhere closer to 10 to 20.