Re: Botnet Hacker Gets Four Years

[Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>]

Jon Kibler wrote:
> A Los Angeles man was sentenced late Wednesday in federal court to four
> years in prison after pleading guilty last year to infecting as many as
> 250,000 computers and stealing thousands of peoples' identities and
> hijacking their bank accounts.
>
> The Los Angeles authorities said John Schiefer, 27, was the nation's
> first defendant to plead guilty to wiretapping charges in connection to
> using botnets.
>
>       http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/botnet-hacker-g.html
>
>
> Jon


I was waiting for someone else to comment on the sentence. Since no one
else has, I will go ahead and do so.

Okay, let's put this sentence into perspective. The guy hacked over
250,000 computers.
   -- If he got one day for each computer hacked, that would be a
sentence of 685 years.
   -- He committed the equivalent of bank robbery on "thousands" of
people. In California (where he appeared in court), you get 2 to 5 years
for robbery of someone using an ATM. That's probably about as close as
you are going to get to the crime he committed. So, if he only robbed
the bank accounts of 1,000 people, and he gets the "minimum ATM
sentence", then, that would be a sentence of 2,000 years.

So, if we add up just these two sentences -- and ignore wiretap,
identity theft, and other crimes -- that would give him a minimum
sentence of 2,685 years. And he only got FOUR years in the poky??

What is wrong with this picture???

Clearly, cyber crime DOES pay!!!

Jon K
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