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I know somebody who basically stole a class A IP network many years ago, in the very early days of IPV4. (He wouldn't tell me which one, but he had inside knowledge of how the system worked, and I know his background, so I believe him. ;) The huge company that owned it went out of business, so he registered their domain name, and sent in an email to authorize the transfer. Once you've got a hot class A network on you…
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I guess you missed this part: > Prosecutors showed that each of those shell companies involved the production of notarized affidavits in the names of people who didn’t exist.
No I didn't. I'm wondering how putting someone that is arguably a smart entrepreneur behind jail for 5 year is going to better our society. We need to think about the bigger picture and how this fits into rehabilitation.
It's not a stretch to believe that its better for society to keep people like this (a combination of high intelligence and low morals) in a place where they can't continue to perpetrate clever schemes.
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The main element of the crime here was creating imaginary people to 'sign' the affidavits submitted to ARIN. Phony companies, phony people, etc. Then the jail time is calculated based on the value of what was taken as a result of the fraud. 5 years seems fairly reasonable for a multi-million dollar scheme, involving multiple employees, explicitly designed to defraud.
White collar crime getting a lengthy custodial sentence is not the normal.
I know somebody who basically stole a class A IP network many years ago, in the very early days of IPV4. (He wouldn't tell me which one, but he had inside knowledge of how the system worked, and I know his background, so I believe him. ;) The huge company that owned it went out of business, so he registered their domain name, and sent in an email to authorize the transfer. Once you've got a hot class A network on you…
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No I didn't. I'm wondering how putting someone that is arguably a smart entrepreneur behind jail for 5 year is going to better our society. We need to think about the bigger picture and how this fits into rehabilitation.
What a smart entrepreneur he was to commit fraud!
We should definitely punish the fraud. But also look at rehabilitation.
In this case, we are taking someone that could under the right circumstance be a net positive for society and putting him in jail for 5 years where he will most probably come out as a destroyed human.
I will never understand how people desire for revenge negate the bigger picture.
Move to ipv6 already
There's something to be said about a human readable IP address. Where you can't tell a person the address, you have to copy and paste. where you cant infer any information about the IP address just by looking at it. It adds unnecessary overhead to small packets, etc.
The underlying crime was wire fraud, and it happened to be about acquiring IP addresses. He wasn’t prosecuted because he got too many, but for how he got them.
IPv4 addresses are like Socks. You can never have too many...
This highlights something tangential, but interesting nevertheless: Oftentimes getting embroiled in a civil lawsuit will, if impropriety is uncovered via the process of discovery, lead to separate criminal charges. The lesson here is that if you have something to hide, and it looks like you're going to be dragged into civil court (especially Federal civil court,) you should rush to settle or beg for arbitration behin…
The underlying crime was wire fraud, and it happened to be about acquiring IP addresses. He wasn’t prosecuted because he got too many, but for how he got them.
The actual criminal activity (fradulent affidavits, forged signatures) started in 2017.