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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."
FUCK ANONYMOUS
Apple wants to prevent legal access on bad people's phones, which means they want to help rapists to cover up!
We need Trump!
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?
Not even one item listed on the Warrant was found, But case was made from the fishing.
15+ years for cybercrime vs 1-2 years for gang rape? Makes total sense...
Why do people think hacking is okay? It causes lots of harm, including collateral damage. I know that the activities of Anonymous are typically justified as political activism. However, it is never okay to fight evil with evil and engage in wrongdoing, even if the final goal appears to be good. The ends do not justify the means in any situation.
Jesus tells us what to do in such a situation. Rather than use force, we are commanded to love our enemies and turn the other cheek. This is the way of our Lord Jesus Christ, who accepted death on the cross rather than combat his accusers, captors, and executioners. He did this willingly so that our sins would be forgiven, even as we didn't deserve such mercy.
Instead of hacking, put down the sword. He who lives by the sword will die by the sword. The things of this world do not matter in eternity. The important choice is Heaven or Hell, and our Lord hopes that we will all choose Heaven. Jesus says you must repent and be born again. Turn away from hacking and other crime, and choose salvation by repenting and being born again.
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15+ years for cybercrime vs 1-2 years for gang rape? Makes total sense...
Rape, like other violent crimes, is almost always prosecuted under state law. Don't like the sentence? Talk to your your state legislature. Risking a felony conviction under federal law? Never a good idea.
Maybe, just maybe this guy broke the law. But the law he broke is wrong, unconstitutional, and should be overturned.
Problem is, the guy needs a few $100k and the ability to stay in jail for a few years until this hits the supreme court.
...you probably shouldn't use the abbreviation for the state you live in as part of your handle.
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.
Actual Anonymous are Israeli state-sponsored.
No sooner than you blow the whistle, they have media people trying to lie again.
Anonymous are Israeli state-sponsored.
Lizard Squad are NSA.
Now Queue how some teenage girls in Alabama are Lizard Squad.
1-2 years for rape, up to 16 years for making sure authorities do their bloody jobs right?
Computer crimes prosecuted x8 - x16 more.
State v.s. Nation in the US is much closer to nation v.s EU. Most of our states are larger, both size and population wise, than many of the EU member states, and were sovereign before the US was.
No reasonable prosecutor would take that case. All he did was hack into their computer, which using Comey's logic in the Clinton debacle, means he didn't necessarily INTRUDE into that computer (totally different)
Gang rape doesn't pose a threat to our corporate overlords, but hacking and cybercrime does.
I'll repeat what I posted earlier.
In the American federal system, crimes of violence are almost always prosecuted under state law. You don't like the sentence for rape, you complain to your state legislature. Crimes with an interstate or foreign dimension are usually a federal responsibility.
The geek might have noticed that the everyone else was asking the FBI to take the lead in investigating the police shootings of two black men last week --- which ought to have told him who has credibility when it comes to standing up for the little guy.
I actually was thinking about that. A fair percent of crimes are never solved, and the percent that is solved has increased in the last 50-60 years.
But, I can imagine a major factor is the internet is increasing awareness, often instantly, of crimes that 20 years ago would have been on the 4th page of a local newspaper.
Crime is down, but access to information is up. I would also ad that the quality of news reporting has move markedly toward sensationlistic.
Maybe this creates more rage in people who want to fix the world. Although the shooter of the police in Dallas highlights the problems with that.
They waited so long because when the whole rape convictions were still fresh, getting revenge for tattling on someone important would have caused too much of a stir.
Wouldn't want those dissatisfied with a lack of justice in the justice system to start thinking the CFAA's an abusive, overreaching tool of oppression, lest they start reacting the way the black folk did to theirs...
Makes sense. After all, we know you can't hack corrupt politicians unless you wear a silly plastic mask.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Looks like KYanonymous will need KYjelly soon.
They only got 1 to 2 years because they were 16 and 17 and were tried as juvenile (not adult) and so got only up to the point they reached adulthood. The other guy was 18+ at the time of the fact. This is the difference and explain everything.
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Any jury would likely have laughed in the judges face when this first happened.
No, well, memories may have faded enough that they can get a conviction.
After The New York Times published an account [late in 2012] of a horrific rape against Alayna Macaluso 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
In 2016, the vigilantes would have been given an imprimatur to destroy the town, as exemplified by the recent Stanford case.
The prevailing attitude at Stanford is that disputed consent only favors the woman, and that Turner's hometown must be made to pay for his actions.
If it was at a prestigious university, they'd not even need a rape case to destroy the person. Washington & Lee used Title IX to wreck someone's life.
The worst parts of it are that no crime occurred, that due process wasn't served, and that there was no legal charge - just straight intimidation.
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
Sounds like its far worse to give a govt official a hard time, than is is to rape a girl.
Then say it to those people that he is failing to reach. What IEO PAC supports him?
I expressed my political opinion so now I'm trolling!
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Guy rapes girl gets 2 years. Guy rapes computer and could get 16 years. Thank you FBI :)
"harass and intimidate and to gain publicity for their online identities,"
If this illegal in Kentucky or elsewhere, are prosecutors going to go after virtually every corporate advertising agency next?
Or is this law merely to avert political inconvenience?
More dead cops! We need more dead cops! FBI agents should be the next target, here's hoping for more repeats of the shootings in Dallas!
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One to two years for rape, 16 for protesting rape. If that's not the most fucked up priorities, then go ahead and keep voting Democrat and Republican.
In an ideal world, there would be no civil or criminal problems. In a lesser ideal world all problems would be civil.
Copyright was addressed by civil law and then some people got it into their heads they wanted there to be criminal penalties. There can be citizen's arrests that aren't crimes, too.