Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
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Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
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Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#2Instead of the blather at this blog, read the original news report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12176463
The judge didn't "recommend" that he serve it in a half-way house; he just said that 'even a half-way house would be sufficient punishment' . That doesn't mean he said "it must be in a half-way house".
Also: he's been sent to a low-security prison, and not a Super-Max.
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#3Instead of the blather at this blog, read the original news report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12176463 The judge didn't "recommend" that he serve it in a half-way house; he just said that 'even a half-way house would be sufficient punishment' . That doesn't mean he said "it must be in a half-way house". Also: he's been sent to a low-security prison, and not a Super-Max.
The burden of being sentenced to a prison significantly far away from your current home and family is a terrible burden, regardless of security level. The justice system understands the punitive damage of this sort of measure, and surely took this into account in sentencing.
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#4Just be be sure we're clear on the "crime", it was that he guessed Palin's yahoo mail security question "Where did you meet your spouse?" to which the answer was "Wasilla High".
source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha/
He didn't even have to guess or crack a password. This is really a major security flaw on yahoo's part, which still exists. The fix in the meantime is to avoid accounts with such questions, or to answer them with random strings of characters.
Should this even be a crime? I propose that to keep something secret you should have reasonable security measures. Easily guessable security questions like mother's maiden name as used by banks should not be considered legitimate protection any more than using a bag twisty to hold a gate closed should be considered the same as a chain and padlock.
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#5Instead of the blather at this blog, read the original news report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12176463 The judge didn't "recommend" that he serve it in a half-way house; he just said that 'even a half-way house would be sufficient punishment' . That doesn't mean he said "it must be in a half-way house". Also: he's been sent to a low-security prison, and not a Super-Max.
The BBC certainly know how to choose their pictures.
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#6Just be be sure we're clear on the "crime", it was that he guessed Palin's yahoo mail security question "Where did you meet your spouse?" to which the answer was "Wasilla High". source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha/ He didn't even have to guess or crack a password. This is really a major security flaw on yahoo's part, which still exists. The fix in the meantime is to avoid accounts with su…
How many guesses am I allowed before it's a crime?
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#7"Palin went on to claim to the court that the email hack paralysed her campaign to become the USA's first female vice president."
Palin has done 100x worse than this kid, but she doesn't get caught because she paralyzes other candidates campaigns the legal way. By not getting caught when dredging dirt on other people's campaign. However Palin was still unsuccessful because now we have a muslim Kenyan extremist turban-wearing islamic terrorist fist-bumper as president.
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#8Instead of the blather at this blog, read the original news report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12176463 The judge didn't "recommend" that he serve it in a half-way house; he just said that 'even a half-way house would be sufficient punishment' . That doesn't mean he said "it must be in a half-way house". Also: he's been sent to a low-security prison, and not a Super-Max.
The burden of being sentenced to a prison significantly far away from your current home and family is a terrible burden, regardless of security level. The justice system understands the punitive damage of this sort of measure, and surely took this into account in sentencing.
The facts of the case are (almost) undisputed. What the guy did implicated him for several felonies. He had exceedingly good legal representation --- just read any of the court record to see that. His team managed to deadlock the jury on the most serious charge he faced. The one felony he got dinged with resulted from his destruction of evidence. And all this after (quick reminder) the guy broke into the still-active email account of John McCain's running mate during the 2008 election.
It is very, very hard for me to imagine mustering much sympathy for him. People are routinely imprisoned for computer-related crimes less blatant than this one. More importantly, people are routinely imprisoned for truly victimless crimes like "intent-to-distribute" escalations of simple drug possession. None of them have the resources this guy seems to have had.
I'm not sure the "burden" of a low-security prison far from his home is an injustice of a cosmic scale.
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#9"Palin went on to claim to the court that the email hack paralysed her campaign to become the USA's first female vice president." Palin has done 100x worse than this kid, but she doesn't get caught because she paralyzes other candidates campaigns the legal way. By not getting caught when dredging dirt on other people's campaign. However Palin was still unsuccessful because now we have a muslim Kenyan extremist turban…
Yes. That is how it works. When you do things the legal way, even if they are evil things, you tend not to end up in prison. On the other hand...
Re: Sarah Palin’s email hacker is imprisoned, against judge’s recommendation
#10Just be be sure we're clear on the "crime", it was that he guessed Palin's yahoo mail security question "Where did you meet your spouse?" to which the answer was "Wasilla High". source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha/ He didn't even have to guess or crack a password. This is really a major security flaw on yahoo's part, which still exists. The fix in the meantime is to avoid accounts with su…
How many guesses am I allowed before it's a crime?
ZERO.
The world is not a video game.
The difficulty required to break into someone's email account has absolutely nothing to do with the legal implications of doing so. It is very possible that you could be convicted of a felony for reading mails on a passwordless email account.
Stay the hell out of other people's email accounts. Jiminy.