F-Secure: Ancheta Sentencing Poll Results

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Interesting poll results from F-Secure.

[snip]

With 725 participants the results break down like this:

* 294 - 40.6% thought that the sentence was Fair Enough or Just Right
* 213 - 29.4% thought that it was Too Little
* 161 - 22.2% thought that is was Too Much
* 57 - 7.9% answered No Idea


We also received some e-mails on the matter. Reader Tony H. put it this way:

"Ancheta is believed to have had some 500,000 computers under his control. That works out to: Serving 1 year for every 
100,000 or so machines he hit; Serving 1 month for every 9000 or so machines; Serving 1 week for every 2000 systems; 
Serving 1 day for every 300 or so systems; Serving 1 hour for every dozen systems; or Serving 5 minutes for each 
machine infected. Considering that it takes anywhere from 30 minutes to many hours of a skilled person's time to clean 
an infected system reliably, that means he's only going to lose 15% of the time he took from others - and he gets to 
sleep at least part of that time."

[snip]

Link:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000875

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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