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Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
Since the crimes were financially-motivated all of them get upgraded to felonies. I have sympathy for people who get fucked by the US' dumb CJ system, but uh... touching a Presidential candidate's Twitter account was whose idea, exactly? What did they expect would happen? I have a hard time believing the "for the lulz" defense some people are making for these people when the whole thing was clearly financially motivated.
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
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I don't know, tbh I'm still surprised. The Discord connection was known early on. I was really surprised anyone would do something like this and communicate over Discord about it. The fact that no VPN/Tor were involved, the fact that Gmail was involved... that's really crazy. It's hard to tell when being dumb ends and being self destructive begins? Is it possible to be this ignorant about the Internet while perpetrat…
Yes, many people consider facebook and Twitter "The Internet." and while they are just two giant tech companies publishing web apps. Networking Layer is invisible to 99% of users nowadays. "it just works."
Yes, but the problem is that it didn't take someone who knows better to hack what is (used as) an official government communication platform. Or one of the largest social networks, or a company with thousands of engineers - take your pick; it's hard to put this in a good light.
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
I dunno what you do here. The book would absolutely be thrown at him if he were 18. He might get off "lightly" at 17, but should he? He should know better right?
I think he gets tried as an adult. He just yeeted his life.
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
And this is where the distinction between minor and adult breaks down. He's 17, he's going to be an adult within 365 days. I dunno what you do here. The book would absolutely be thrown at him if he were 18. He might get off "lightly" at 17, but should he? He should know better right? I think he gets tried as an adult. He just yeeted his life.
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
IIRC in the past, cyber criminals in similar situations were made to help federal cyber crime investigations, not sure whether through community service or a form of prison labor. The price tag for talented people is high so it's a win-win situation compared to wasting their talent by making them do low skilled labor.
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the verge is reporting that he's being tried as an adult, so maybe that's the reasoning. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arr... >He’s being charged as an adult, and the press conference made clear that law enforcement is considering how bad consequences of the hack could have been — not just the $100,000-plus in bitcoin that the teen is alleged to have scammed out of unsuspecting Twitter user…
What's the point of having different sentencing for minors if you can just try them as an adult if they're "bad enough"?