Perhaps, but there’s people that are good in cyber security and had not commit any crime (that we know). Just saying that been famous for a hack, does not makes you better than others.
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Florida Teenager to Spend 3 Years in Prison for Twitter Hack That Affected Apple
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good luck living in a society at 17 years old where you cannot use a computer without law enforcement supervision. That's the real punishment. I can't imagine life in 20 years without this ability.
Do we know what the hole was? Something like this probably took a lot of social engineering, maybe also people on the inside. Might've been nothing but getting the right people to abuse their privileges. In which case, it'd be more crookery than actual security research.
All white hackers are currently employed in cyber security companies, big tech companies, etc receiving millions in salary for working in underwear for a few hours a day. They know that regardless how good are you, there are smarter people out there, and you will end up being put in custody one day. And then, there are young hackers who are just dump and will become white hackers once they get some jail time in order to understand how this works.
What they did was just a kind of phishing and some typical "pretend-to-be-someone" conversation to trick a twitter employee... they might not even wander around low-level programming.
Don't be a naive/clueless sympathizer.
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Cyber security companies most certainly should not hire them. First, spear phishing attacks are easy for anyone who can talk on a phone and manipulate to execute. Second, they weren’t smart enough to avoid getting caught, so it’s obvious they don’t know enough about cyber security to use private systems and avoid detection. Third, and most importantly, these people were doing this with malicious intent to scam people. They need reform before trusted with legitimate security concerns.
I dont know you age, but try imagining what was your mindset 10 or 15 years ago. Try looking at you when you were young. Were your priorities in life back then the same as they are now? Were you smarter then? Did you see the world as you see it now? People change by definition and I cant see how for non-violent offence it its worth taking the life away from a 17 years old person, just because he was dump enough to put in place an online scam that didnt hurt physically anyone. Ofc, he needs to be punished but serving a reasonable time in military style camp is more than sufficient.
The opposite is far more likely. He'll be all but unemployable when he comes out and he'll start to think crime is his only means of support.
Anne Sacoolas ran over and killed Harry Dunn through gross criminal negligence. Then she fled to America to escapr justice. The punishment currently being suggested for her is... COMMUNITY SERVICE!
If killing a guy gets you community service then a third rate bitcoin scam should warrant promising to not do it again.
Correct. Thank you for stating what is not a popular opinion these days; sometimes bad guys are bad guys, and the consequences they reap are deserved.
You have people on here saying he shouldn't go to jail but, rather, should be given a cyber security job. These people have no conception of morality, of right and wrong. This person tried to defraud people out of their property..it's not a matter of skill, its a matter of morality, ethics. Yes, let's reward the evil, thieving person because they're really technologically talented.
It's no wonder our society is so ill. We have people that want to reward scammers.
A morally corrupt thief with direct influence over "cyber security". What could go wrong?
I'd bet good money that no one pays you for your opinion.
I am not really a fan of plea bargaining. I am also not a fan of using logical fallacy to try and rationalize the irrational of your example.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Though in this case doubling the term, at a minimum, would have been more appropriate.
If the punks didn't have inside help, I doubt they would have been successful.
IKR?! You would think they have a lot of “security” to “protect” your “privacy”. Yeah right lol
That doesn’t mean the punishment for the hacker was excessive. It seems more than fair. It simply means the punishment for the drunk driver wasn’t enough. It wouldn’t be enough even without comparing it to anything else.
That’s obscene. A fine for killing a kid? Maybe we should be using a benchmark that isn’t absolutely ******* insane.
like it or not, the justice system cannot function without plea bargaining.
Too bad they couldn't send the dude into maximum "pound me in the @ss" prison. He is a very bad man.
Well, I guess if you fell for this the "fool and his money are soon parted" rings very true. A reasonable person would have concluded this was not real.
Edit: I love the downvotes on my comment. This isn't supporting the scum that did it, but at the same time you need to be able to think for two seconds before jumping on the greed train.
Edit: I love the downvotes on my comment. This isn't supporting the scum that did it, but at the same time you need to be able to think for two seconds before jumping on the greed train.
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I just wanted to express, that this and many other punishments are simply out of proportion, and that generally sucks.
Same same in every country.
As Apple I would also sue or fire the involved employees for being that stupid, for handing out corporate logins over twitter, and thats not hacking, thats scamming.
