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Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals (zdnet.com)
Danngggg writes: Many will remember Martin Gottesfeld since he was arrested on a speedboat coming from Cuba. He volunteered at trial that he and his wife had just been denied political asylum by Castro. Gottesfeld has said he did it to defend the life of an innocent child named Justina Pelletier. On Thursday, the same judge that over saw the Aaron Swartz case sentenced the Anonymous hacktivist to 10 years in federal prison for a DDoS of Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard-affiliated hospitals, and Wayside Youth and Family. The sentence included $440,000 in restitution, 3 years supervised release, and other conditions. The week before, Gottesfeld docketed a 690-page affidavit (including exhibits) documenting the judge's conflicts of interest and why he doesn't belong anywhere near the case. That's available on the FreeMartyG website. Local news spoke to his wife after the sentencing hearing as well.
This guy was trying to DDoS hospitals. I can't think of any excuse that would actually excuse that, and "doing it to save some child's life" is flat out unbelievable. If it takes him 680 pages to document "conflicts of interest", I have to think there is a lot of smoke being blown to inflate that page count, and probably not much fire.
If it takes him 680 pages to document "conflicts of interest", I have to think there is a lot of smoke being blown to inflate that page count, and probably not much fire.
Basically, The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Reminds me of the (literally) hundreds of Tweets I've seen from some idiot saying something about "no collusion" ...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
> Prisons should only be for people that are physically dangerous. For everyone else, there are more constructive punishments.
I would say attacking the systems used to care for critically ill children is physically dangerous. I'm sure the doctors and nurses did their best to care for the kids despite the attacks; I'm also sure that they use computerized systems to improve the quality of care.
You mentioned parole. He can get time off for good behavior.
I don't necessarily have an opinion on what his sentence should be, and I don't know if that is controlled by what some other person got for some other crime. I don't know enough about the facts of the case, ornhis history. Sentencing decisions are also just plain very difficult. I do see this as physically dangerous, taking out the hospital's electronic systems reduces their ability to care for very sick children.
I also note that someone who has already attacked a children's hospital has demonstrated that they are able and willing to harm sick kids. I don't really want to give him a chance to see what he does next. I particularly don't want to trust him hanging out in the very hospitals he attacked, which he now has even more rage against since it's their fault he's sentenced to his prison (in his mind). I wouldn't want him anywhere near my kid if she were hospitalized.
10 years with no criminal history and no violence means he'll probably be eligible for Low Security.
Wrong.
He will be sent to a Medium Security facility, purely because of the length of his sentence.
( I actually work in the BOP, and unlike you I know what I am talking about )
>Understand, the reason he attacked the hospital is because he genuinely thought the hospital was unduley enriching itself by kidnapping children.
And the guy who shot up Comet Pizza really believed there were child sex slaves in the basement. Sorry, believing stupid isn't a defense for criminal behavior.
Stop letting it ruin your life. Trump being President or being in jail does not directly affect your life. Go find happiness and stop worrying about what Trump does.
Every time a impotent millennial loses his shit just thinking about Trump, I shed a tear of joy. They live in a delusional mind fantasy that Trump will be removed from office and go to prison. They pin their hopes of salvation upon the Messiah Mueller without success. Here we are two years later and their foot stampings have brought them nothing more than sore feet. Every day that their little fantasy is denied, they grow a little crazier and lash out a little harder. It's delicious.
Hospitals and governments don't just take on kids for no reason at all. It typically happens in extremely abusive situations. Mothers especially have exemptions from most abuse and child protection laws, it must go pretty far for a family court to NOT award custody to the mother, let alone, not to either parent or grandparent etc because usually one of them is considered reasonable enough.
I've been on committees that oversaw Jehovah's Witness hospital cases, they'd let their children die over violating their leaders' rules. In most cases, state or hospital custody was a rare and temporary situation only after serious complications of the alternative treatments their own leaders recommended hadn't yet killed the child and as soon as treatment was done, custody was reverted (and in some cases, the parents then dismissed the child from the hospital and flew to a hospital where a religious 'doctor' was present - a few of those doctors later on lost their accreditation).
Thanks for the red herring that has absolutely nothing to do with the case being discussed and in fact is the exact opposite of this case. In your case, it was the parents ignoring science. In this case, it was the hospital ignoring the science and facts. Your outrage to those religious nut parents should be equal to your outrage at a hospital taking a child without doing even the most cursory and easy checks about anything specific to this child's situation.
There is a reason you were asked to weight in on the ethical situations you discussed. In this case, that didn't happen. That's the problem. That's why people are pissed...
"Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
He brings in his kid because there's a specialist at the hospital that can help.
Others at the hospital look at his kid - refuse to send the kid the specialist. When he tries to get his kid back, they accuse him of child abuse and take his kid.
One of the point if you look around for more balanced article, is that the dr korson at the time had not done a muscle biopsy (one diagnosis which is deemed necessary - and reading what he told over the year about his method of "clumping" versus "scattering" diagnosis this brings up certain doubt about him). And certainly there was no mitochondrial genetic analyzes.
Couple of things: 1) I can tell you are not a parent, 2) most juries are composed mostly of parents
Maybe perhaps the hospital should have done one of those first before resorting to CPS? As for what you say, it seems to be true. Its also true they didn't know any of it when they called in CPS. They would have had to contact the geneticist first for them to know that. They only found this information out after CPS had taken the child. So its more papering over what they did rather than admitting what they did. The fact that they can do this now, and that they are willing to throw a fellow medical researcher under the bus to do it, should tell you what they are willing to do to get out of this one.
The dumbest thing the hospital has done so far (other than the original mistakes) was to not settle immediately. The hospital can quibble and go back and forth about mitochondrial issues and all its going to do is make the jury want to hang them more. Because the simple fact is, they didn't know any of it when they called CPS in the first place. And the fact that there is clearly medical uncertainty here, will count against them. People will quite reasonably have the attitude that "YOU(the hospital) SHOULD HAVE BEEN SURE BEFORE CALLING CPS". Anything that counts against that no matter how complex or smart or medically sound, will get them into even more trouble. Before you take people's kids, you have to be sure. Anything that seems to go against that simple premise will get harshly rebuffed by almost any jury. You want to see an outrageous legal settlement? Argue that you should be able to take people's kids without due processes or even reviewing all the information at hand.
"Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
You DO know that a hospital's web pages and business admin don't run in the same space as the patient monitors, right?
He attacked a children's hospital and then has the temerity to think he's some kind of hero activist. He's a self-important jerk and his ass is going to be in jail for 10 years. I hope he gets to enjoy every last minute of it.