{"id":46,"date":"2005-10-11T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-10-11T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T01:19:11","slug":"uk-court-imposes-soft-sentences-for-cybercriminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/10\/11\/uk-court-imposes-soft-sentences-for-cybercriminals\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Court Imposes Soft Sentences for Cybercriminals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, UK courts don’t take $9.6 million<\/em> in damages as seriously as the US, and even then it’s way too lenient in the US as well. From PCWorld .com<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

LONDON — Two British men who pleaded guilty to charges they helped create the “TK worm<\/strong>” were sentenced to prison Friday in Newcastle Crown Court. The worm infected thousands of computers, including two owned by the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

Jordan Bradley, a 22-year-old electrician, was sentenced to three months<\/em> imprisonment and Andrew Harvey received six months<\/em>, according to the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). Harvey is 23 years old and unemployed. Both men were part of the international hacking gang called the Thr34t Krew (TK).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the same article:<\/p>\n

A U.S. man, Raymond Paul Steigerwalt, was sentenced to 21 months<\/em> in prison in May in connection with the Thr34t Krew, and ordered to pay $12,000<\/em> in restitution to the DOD. Steigerwalt, 21, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and one count of possession of child pornography.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cyberpunks like these guys ought to receive a penalty suitable for the crime – they caused almost ten million dollars in damages<\/em> – if I were legislating penalties to cover these crimes, I would impose a minimum of 10 years<\/em> in prison. If i were the judge applying the sentence I would administer the maximum<\/em> penalty under the law. How the hell else will the potential thousands of these types of criminals be deterred? <\/p>\n

You may read the entire article at PCWorld.com – British Hackers Jailed for Worm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, UK courts don’t take $9.6 million in damages as seriously as the US, and even at that it’s way too lenient in the US as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberspace","category-degenerates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}