Mitnick to Plead Guilty

Roast Beef hooked us up to a ZDNet article that proclaims that Kevin Mitnick will Plead Guilty to computer-related crimes. After four years in prison waiting for a trial, he might be out by the end of the year.

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how plead you?

[pohl]

Mr. Torvalds, Mr. Stallman, Mr. Wall: you stand before this court to face the most serious charge of hacking libre, a criminal offense against the First Church of Rand. Our game theorists have run simulations which show that your act will lead to the eventual marginalization of our precious dogma; we predict that your crime will inevitably reach treasonous proportions on June 27, 2012 -- how plead you?

Linus: It wasn't just me; a lot of other people helped.

Richard: Will I be allowed to redistribute a modified version of the court-record?

Larry: I sure am happy.

This court is offended by your sight. You are sentenced to copy The Fountainhead onto Big Chief Tablets with a crayon. Bailiff!

The Point...

[pridkett]

Here is the point. I'm sure we all can argue like 5 year olds that Mitnick was a cracker not a hacker and he went against the "hacker code" (which applies to crackers now I guess). Anyway, the point is that it is FOUR years that he has been waiting for a trial! Doesn't that bother anyone else? I mean what if it turned out that he didn't do it in a trial that may be another year down the road (I know ZD says it would take place next month, but its ZD and they never get their facts right)? He could have served 5 years for nothing? I would honestly like to know what sort of progress has been made on this case each week by the people who have been putting off the trial.

Thats what its about my friends.