Record 13-Year Sentence for Hacker Max Vision

If you ask me, his sentence should be longer.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/max-vision-sentencing/

 

Interesting.

 

The only thing that popped out when I read about this - I'd wish they'd mentioned more about that, the first thing I thought was they although unlikely got extremely lucky or found his password.

 

Thanks JRViejo.

 

I'm not sure they should let him anywhere NEAR a computer,
that seems really short sighted or just plain ignorant..

Who's going to watch over him, who's there that knows as much about hacking as he does-
besides other prisoners..

 

NO KIDDING!!

Prior jail time in 2001 for Hacking & then:

"He was caught with 1.8 million stolen credit card numbers belonging to a thousand different banks, who tallied the fraudulent charges on the cards at $86.4 million....."

& what does the prosecuter say? "“He’s a likable person,” said prosecutor Dembosky. “Almost wide-eyed and optimistic in his view of the world.”

I'd like to know when they started handing out hallucinogenics in courtrooms?
If I went the local liquor store & robbed it, I'd probably get atleast 5 years!

(I wish I knew his encryption setup & how fast it was cracked, though - That part was scary!)

CustomHVAC

 

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