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Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid (arstechnica.com)
A federal grand jury has indicted "KYAnonymous" -- more than three years after FBI agents raided and searched his home -- and charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes an article from Ars Technica:
After The New York Times published an account [late in 2012] of a horrific rape against a teenage girl in Steubenville, Ohio, an online vigilante campaign was started...the campaign targeted local officials who the vigilantes felt weren't prosecuting the rape investigation seriously because the alleged perpetrators were high school football players... Two teenage boys ended up being charged, and when the case went to trial in March 2013, the two were convicted of rape and sentenced to one to two years in prison.
The indictment says Deric Lostutter "knowingly and intentionally joined and voluntarily participated in a conspiracy" to "harass and intimidate and to gain publicity for their online identities," according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. "If convicted in the Kentucky case, Lostutter could face a maximum penalty of 16 years in prison (no more than five years on each of three counts, and one year on a fourth)..."
"The federal search warrant of Lostutter's home listed 'Guy Fawkes masks' among the items agents were looking for."
The indictment says Deric Lostutter "knowingly and intentionally joined and voluntarily participated in a conspiracy" to "harass and intimidate and to gain publicity for their online identities," according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. "If convicted in the Kentucky case, Lostutter could face a maximum penalty of 16 years in prison (no more than five years on each of three counts, and one year on a fourth)..."
"The federal search warrant of Lostutter's home listed 'Guy Fawkes masks' among the items agents were looking for."
3 years after collecting evidence?
What, was the Grand Jury out for coffee?
The sad thing is they're going for more time than the real offenders.
I say we tell the Kentucky US Attorney about more serious crimes that could be occurring in her jurisdiction. Ones that would be a better use of taxpayer monies.
But trying to get people to investigate it is 15 years?
15+ years for cybercrime vs 1-2 years for gang rape? Makes total sense...
Looking at it as a European, from the outside, I think there's something horrifically wrong that considers rape unimportant enough to leave it to local governments and give them right to punish it weakly (or not at all) but at the same time enforces draconian sentences for things like this on a national level. How did your priorities get so skewed?
But the law he broke is wrong, unconstitutional, and should be overturned.
Laws against conspiracy to harass and intimidate are unconstitutional? Do tell.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
1 to 2 years for rape and 16 for computer fraud? Something is out of wack! That poor girl is going to be haunted by that for the rest of her life. Anonymous right or wrong attempted to shed light on corruption and even with the attention, they got away with it. The American people need to wake up and focus on what's matters before it is too late.
One or two years for rape, 16 years for embarrassing politicians into taking action on said rape. The priories of our "justice" system never cease to amaze me.
Rape someone instead of getting the feds to investigate the rape. You'll be doing less time.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Look at rape, then look at hacking, then ponder which of the two is more likely to happen to a politician, and which is more likely to be done by a politician.
And then ponder again why one is punished harshly, and one is ... less so.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
1-2 years for rape, up to 16 years for making sure authorities do their bloody jobs right?
Beyond that it's always a mistake to compare actual sentences with potential maximum sentences. This guy is unlikely to get anything like 16 years, assuming he's convicted.