RE: Hackers branded as terrorists was: (no subject)

Steven,

THANKS for the link...!

Just skimmed this, but where I normally agree with the policies of the EFF,
I believe they are way out of line on this one.

I read the hacker responsible for Kournikova or some such got 150 hours of
community service.  But the court definitely took a strong stand and refused
to give him back his CD with some 1000's of viruses on it...

No wonder most kids think this is just a game.

If jail and monetary penalties were levied, maybe to cover just .001% of the
actual damages in time lost, etc...  Well, you'd separate the men from the
boys in the hacker community.  All you'd have left are the ones who are
doing this for the evil pleasure of it.

But someone needs to be made an example.  A penalty of 150 community service
hours, and "Mafia boy" getting juvenile detention, IMHO, sets the EXACT
WRONG example.  (I should study their particular offences, to make this
statement, but my gut-feeling is that these are extraordinarily light
sentences considering that the damages inflicted, even though slight, are
multiplied by the millions of people effected.)

I definitely agree that there needs to be shades of gray in these verdicts.
I'm NOT in favor of life sentences for kiddie-hackers.  And I definitely
agree with the ACLU that this needs to be thinked through, very
deliberately.  But I also think the USG is moving in the right direction,
and the courts are moving in the wrong direction.

jjt


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