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Romanian Hacker 'Guccifer' Sentenced To 52 Months In US Prison (reuters.com)
Romanian hacker "Guccifer" who targeted high-profile US politicians has been sentenced for 52 months in prison. Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lazar, pleaded guilty in May on charges of aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access of a computer. Lazar targeted former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Bush family and was arrested on hacking charges in Romania in 2014 and was sentenced four years. He was extradited to the U.S. to face charges in March 2016. Reuters adds: Lazar has said in interviews he breached Clinton's private server at her home in Chappaqua, New York, but law enforcement and national security officials say that claim is meritless. Lazar is believed to have hacked into email accounts of about 100 victims between 2012 and 2014. They include prominent political figures such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a relative of former President George W. Bush and Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton White House aide and an unofficial adviser to Clinton. Clinton is now the Democratic nominee for president. Lazar leaked online memos Blumenthal sent Clinton that were addressed to her private email account, which was used during her time as secretary of state to conduct both personal and work business in lieu of a government account.
Sieg Hill!
Nope?
This guy did commit crimes. He also committed them against powerful people. It's not at all surprising he's going to be spending a fair bit of time in prison. The interesting part is more in regards to the extradition, and possibly that he didn't suffer an "accident" on his way to the US for trial.
NSA is doing the same for years. Still waiting any sentence.
He may be guilty under our legal system, but as many people are starting to understand a legal system and a justice system are not the same thing. If we had a justice system, the Bushes and Clintons would be in prison and Guccifer would be free. People like this should be considered heroes for exposing the criminals that lay claim to positions of leadership. The legal (not justice) system that those criminal leaders have set up are designed to keep themselves wealthy and powerful, and people like Snowden and Guccifer threaten their wealth and power.
Does anybody know?
I believe this is the first time I've every heard of "aggravated" identity theft. Did he have a knife in his hand while doing this? Of course being the person he targeted, I'm surprised he didn't get charged with "aggravated attempted assassination" and "1st degree capital fraud".
US colonies must comply with US orders to render alleged criminal for trial. Europe is clearly a colony of the US since they always comply with orders like the sweet little bitches they are.
Don't mess with powerful people.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
"aggravated attempted character assassination"
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When you say "an unoffical advisor to Clinton", be sure to indicate *WHICH* Clinton. You know, cuz, there was a President with that name too.
Not a hacker - but I suppose "Person who took an educated guess at the shitty passwords of powerful people" shows that powerful people are dumb when it comes to their personal digital security.
Guccifer exposes Hillary's illegal email server and goes to jail for it.
Hilary gets off Scott Free.
BTW, Comey said "Leeeeave Hillary Alllloneeee" because there were more appropriate administrative punishments available.
And? What were they? Were the ever applied?
It's 'kinda worse than that.
Hillary Clinton sent classified E-mails after leaving the state department, after the FBI concluded its investigation more deleted E-mails turned up that they should have been given, even more E-mails turned up that should have matched the FBI search terms Hillary was given.
(Also, Bill Clinton used tax dollars to subsidize the private E-mail server and pay for employees at the Clinton foundation.)
Looking at the media reports, things like Sigh. Yet Another Non-Scandal at the Clinton Foundation come up.
Nothing to see here, no smoking gun. She wasn't indicted, so let's leave her alone.
The first sentence of the ARSTechnica article by David Kravets with the same headline reads-
"The Romanian hacker who helped expose Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mail as secretary of state was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in prison in connection to an admission that he broke into about 100 Americans' mail accounts."
Talk about a wicked psyop. It paints the picture that Hillary's use of private e-mail was a secret of some kind. I wonder how many hundreds or thousands of people she communicated with via that e-mail account who therefore knew of the activity long before any hackerZ came into the picture. That's an amazing conspiracy to have kept under everyone's radar for so many years. Or it's a political smear.
Aaron Schwartz was up for far more jail time, for a crime that wasn't really a crime.
The claim he had breached Clinton's server is meritless? Is it because they need no breach to avoid indict Clinton about careless classified material handling?
I've read that the currently active hacker Guccifer 2.0 is not the same person as Guccifer. Therefore, we can expect more mischief from 2.0.
This kind of sentencing is extraordinary especially in light of other recent verdicts and sentencing.
think before you write, it'll save me moderator points.
... he would have been out in 3 months.