Retro hacking gets blind youth eleven years in jail
In this era of data breaches and cyberterrorism, there’s so much harm that can be done over the Internet that it’s hard to imagine going back to the days when hackers cracked the good old phone network. But that’s exactly what a 19-year-old blind teen from the Boston area did, and his hacking got him eleven years in prison.
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Eleven years for hacking
While I agree that the crime of sending SWAT teams to peoples houses should be dealt with severely-- eleven years!! Drunks committing vehicular homicide don't get eleven years. Our court systems are really screwed up. You get less time in prison for killing another human being while being hammered on whiskey than you do for hacking the phone system. Strange!