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Re: Hacker "Coolio" to work on jail PC's
From: Marcy Abene <geetwentythree () YAHOO COM>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:55:43 -0800
While I agree that web defacement is a juvenile and pointless activity, you have missed the point: Prison sentences are completely inappropriate punishment. How does sending a child to prison help increase security? These extreme punishments do *NOT* fit the crimes. How would YOU feel if your son or daughter was yanked out of school and thrown in *prison* alongside rapists and murderers because he or she ran a script or typed some commands on a computer that "upset" someone. This "someone" is probably an admin who is paid to keep systems updated! Solve the *PROBLEM* (a lack of security) instead of attacking the messengers. Kids should not be locked up in cages. How does that help anyone? Whose security is actually improved - perhaps the prison industry's? People who think like you are screwing the world and imprisoning our children! Thanks a lot! On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Patrick Oonk wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 11:30:44AM -0500, Nathan Dorfman wrote:Oooh. 9 months for defacing two web sites seem a bit extreme to anyone else? Exactly what monetary loss is incurred by an anti-drug
propaganda
site?http://packetstorm.securify.com/docs/hack/i.only.replaced.index.html.txt "I only replaced index.html" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It would appear that the k-r4d kiddies who deface web pages have no concept of WHY their shenanigans illicit such a violent response from the companies they attack. This brief article will list some of the behind the scenes events that occur after the "harmless" replacement of index.html by our oh-so-favorite political activists.
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