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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
I understand the point and I also agree about the double standard BUT he admits to breaking the law so I don't see why he thinks he should be let off.
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I don't think he should be let off, but I'm not sure he should be so readily handed over to the US, where more than likely hes going to be labeled with the magic word, "Terrorist", and denied all kinds of due process. I'm all for justice, but I'd be scared shitless if I were him. All indications are showing that his punishment is going to far exceed his actual crimes, just so they can make an example of him.
From everything I've read, he simply used publicly published and readily available exploits, used in common security auditing tools to break into those computers. These are exploits that should not have worked, on any network or machine administered by anyone with a modicum of security awareness. And these are government computers, with information that pertains to our national security. They want to make an example of him, because he's really not a skilled or expert cracker, he was a curious dude with poor judgment who ran a couple of scripts he found on government computers and managed to stumble his way in, Forrest Gump style. He's really a victim of his own idiocy, and the victim of the idiocy of our government IT.
Sure, put the guy on trial, but we also need to be stringing up the people who managed to so incompently store highly sensitive government information in a house of cards.