Re: Hacker "Coolio" to work on jail PC's

[Marcy Abene <geetwentythree () YAHOO COM>]

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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