Hackers jailed

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by Saxodriver

3month, and make them only able to use a Intel Celeron 333mhz with 64mb of ram and onboard visuals and sound, with a 2gb HD at 5400rpm IDe, single speed cd-rom, 1 floppy drive, and the most dodgy ever installation of Windows ME.

NOW THATS DETERENT

I very much doubt it.Iread a few years ago that a one or two teenagers in the US using an old TRS-80 hacked into a US government sytem they also hacked into the phone company and erased all the phone call traces.

So any hacker can break into anything.

How long before somebody uses the new Sony PSP

[patrickp]

Originally Posted by Saxodriver

...and make them only able to use a Intel Celeron 333mhz with 64mb of ram and onboard visuals and sound, with a 2gb HD at 5400rpm IDe, single speed cd-rom, 1 floppy drive, and the most dodgy ever installation of Windows ME.

Apart from ME, that's a better spec than my first PC, and that was only 7 or 8 years ago.

You forgot to mention the dodgy dialup - now, that's frustrating!

NOW THATS DETERENT

Erm, is that 'detergent' or 'deterrent?' ;-D

[Chrysalis]

19.000 pcs in 2 weeks not 19,000 total?

if it wasnt for profit then I expect they were launching denial of service attacks with them, the term 3 months is very low but what do you expect its a virtual crime and many judges will be unaware of the affects this type of crime can have.

[AndrewJ]

Hmmm a better way to stop them trying to hack things... okay I have come to a conclusion, simply make sure that they are on a ntl bb connection at the lowest level, with a special cap of 1kb.

There they are online. But not much of a problem.

[kronas]

3 months ?

Judge Beatrice Bolton "Young men, like you, have to be deterred from committing this kind of offence."

3 months is not enough atleast a year, they will proberbly be let out within a month or just over

They'll be out in 3 weeks.

[Angua]

The next Hackers will just be more careful not to get caught!

I did like Saxo's idea but I would make it a 286 with no access to the net?

I work with Andrew Harvey and he is a nice guy, wonder why he got 6 months huh?

What needs to be remembered is that they did not use the worm to do any damage, the work caused no damage, it simply opened a back door into a computer. They gained nothing financially and they took nothing from these computers.

[Martin]

So they didn't do any damage and they got no finacial gain! So why did they do it? They created a back door just for the sake of it? hmmmm I have to say it sounds dodgy to me!!

[Jules]

And while they are inside I am sure they will have access to a computer any way

[etccarmageddon]

I think lots of community service, a large fine each and banned from using the internet for 2 years would have been a better sentence. Prison isn't going to do them good as I think they were stupid rather than hardened criminals. perhaps they could have been sentenced to community service educatating kids on computing.

Originally Posted by Jules

And while they are inside I am sure they will have access to a computer any way

I just been discussing this, you could argue that if these guys are guilty and deserve jail, then so are programmers that either by accident or negligence allow a back door to open should be jailed, and then where do we stop?

[Gareth]

At least after spending 3 months inside, they'll have learnt some new scams. Nothing like locking up a VX'er with a kiddie-fiddler or mass murderer to make them see the error of their ways.

I'm going to get some flack over this but here goes, it's not a hardcore crime so why they have to go to prison is beyond me, when they get out some software company will sign them up and give them high paid jobs to tackle the problems of hackers.

[patrickp]

Agreed. Much better idea to teach them that their skills have positive as well as negative uses - community service would be much better.