Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
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Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#210 years seems a bit steep.
Wonder what Scarlett thinks of this; someone read her email, and is now in jail for 10 years.
Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#3Poor bastard. He did something that is unquestionably highly unethical and illegal, but he was also an awkward, messed-up nerdy guy who arguably just needed some real friends and a chance.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201205/chris-chan...
Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#410 years seems a bit steep. Wonder what Scarlett thinks of this; someone read her email, and is now in jail for 10 years.
Didn't he also publicly release nude photos of her and three other women? Still maybe a bit extreme on the sentence, but it wasn't just "reading e-mail".
Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#510 years seems a bit steep. Wonder what Scarlett thinks of this; someone read her email, and is now in jail for 10 years.
Didn't he also publicly release nude photos of her and three other women? Still maybe a bit extreme on the sentence, but it wasn't just "reading e-mail".
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Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#6Now when we discuss the legality of NSA having wide open access to citizen emails and other personal data, we'll have a good reference point on what happens when regular people do it.
Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#710 years seems a bit steep. Wonder what Scarlett thinks of this; someone read her email, and is now in jail for 10 years.
Didn't he also publicly release nude photos of her and three other women? Still maybe a bit extreme on the sentence, but it wasn't just "reading e-mail".
Yes he did. There is a strange cognitive dissonance between email and regular mail. If someone broke into an apartment lobby, picked the lock on the mailboxes, took out a set of film prints [1] from the drug store, made copies of the 'private and personal' pictures contained therein and then shared them with their friends for prurient reasons, what sort of punishment is deserved there?
The "virtual" nature of email makes it seem so much more distant than the reality of breaking and entering into someone elses home for the purposes of stealing their mail.
[1] Well presumably not surprising but there was an interesting arrest of a guy who did this at CostCo by searching through the finished pictures boxes looking for interesting pictures for his "collection."
Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#810 years seems a bit steep. Wonder what Scarlett thinks of this; someone read her email, and is now in jail for 10 years.
Didn't he also publicly release nude photos of her and three other women? Still maybe a bit extreme on the sentence, but it wasn't just "reading e-mail".
Exactly. It's the kind of thing that for a large portion of the internet seems to be OK if it's celebrities and not OK if it's your girlfriend. I cannot comprehend how people think what he did is OK.
(note that I'm not arguing about the harshness of the sentence, or how it compares to each and every other sentence for each and every other crime. I'm just saying that what he did is not remotely OK).
Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#9Poor bastard. He did something that is unquestionably highly unethical and illegal, but he was also an awkward, messed-up nerdy guy who arguably just needed some real friends and a chance. http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201205/chris-chan...
Wait, can't the same argument be applied to certain sociopaths?
Re: Man who hacked Scarlett Johansson's e-mail sentenced to 10 years
#10I don't know much about this story and certainly don't condone the behaviour, but from the article it seems all he was doing was abusing the password reset system offered by the service providers, which as anyone reading hacker news will know is a very flawed security model (I use random data for answers when they force security q/a). Not exactly high level hacking (it's no firesheep session hijack for example) so seems a bit harsh considering. Surely this is really an issue of a very bad security hole being abused, more responsibility should be directed to the email providers to get better with their security. Again not saying such behaviour should go unpunished, he deserves jail time certainly, but this should also be a clear signal that service providers need to get more serious about security and take more responsibility.
edited for clarity.