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He said he was looking for UFO info on the US military computers hidden from you and me. I still think however, he was wrong to have hacked in the computers but sentencing seems way too much for crime committed. Just my two penny worth of opinion though
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If I hack into a US military computer system just to get address information for my old military friends who served with me, I've still broken the law by hacking into a US military computer system! Doesn't matter WHY I did it... it matters only THAT I did it.
He says he was looking only for UFO info... but who *really* knows what he was after? And even if we can assume that he was simply searching for UFO info, who knows what other sensitive info he might have accidentally found while looking?
So let's say I'm a terrorist, and I want to hack in to get some confidential information. When I'm caught, would you expect me to say, "Ah, you got me... yeah, I was trying to find out access codes for where the nukes are stored"? No... I'd probably say, "Hey, man, I wasn't doing anything wrong... I was only trying to look up some phone numbers..."
Sorry, man... the excuses don't fly. If I don't want to be "negatively affected" by a foreign government (or for that matter, my OWN government), I should stay off their systems, which I have no permission to access.
Besides, it's not THAT bad of a punishment... once you figure in the UK-to-US exchange rate, he'll only be locked up for 35 UK years.
For me it does not matter what his intensions are. Breaking in is breaking in. One should not mess around with the property of other people/organisations. Even if I steal (!) from the rich to give it to the poor, the act is still stealing.
What's more, if you were cought with your hand in the cookie jar, would you admit you were going to sell the cookies?
I can not see inside his head, but neither can you. We both do not know what his motives are.
My opinion.
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Originally Posted by BosonMichael
If I hack into a US military computer system just to get address information for my old military friends who served with me, I've still broken the law by hacking into a US military computer system! Doesn't matter WHY I did it... it matters only THAT I did it.
He says he was looking only for UFO info... but who *really* knows what he was after? And even if we can assume that he was simply searching for UFO info, who knows what other sensitive info he might have accidentally found while looking?
So let's say I'm a terrorist, and I want to hack in to get some confidential information. When I'm caught, would you expect me to say, "Ah, you got me... yeah, I was trying to find out access codes for where the nukes are stored"? No... I'd probably say, "Hey, man, I wasn't doing anything wrong... I was only trying to look up some phone numbers..."
Sorry, man... the excuses don't fly. If I don't want to be "negatively affected" by a foreign government (or for that matter, my OWN government), I should stay off their systems, which I have no permission to access.
Besides, it's not THAT bad of a punishment... once you figure in the UK-to-US exchange rate, he'll only be locked up for 35 UK years.
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That is still a very long time I don't even want to imagine
You did state earlier in your reply that he hacked US military computers in order to help third world countries.
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Originally Posted by grim
he was trying to find technology that the US supposedly processed that would help the 3rd world, how can a man trying to help millions be regarded as worse than rapists and murders. rapists and murders are in a different league, they're the ones who should get 70 years they're the scum of the earth.
23-Oct-2007, 05:39 PM
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