A federal appeals court upheld a nine-year prison term Monday for a hacker who tried and failed to steal customer credit-card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores.
Is this right? My problem with this is the scale of the sentence for eavesdropping on an unsecured network. Certainly what they were doing was a crime but 9 years? How much time should the folks responsible for securing the Lowes network(s) get?
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so you are advocating holding responsible those who are bound by professional duty to take due care to secure systems . . . and don't?
i agree.
i also agree the sentence is overkill. while they altered programs (not just eavesdropped) - the punishment should fit the crime - couple years and out.
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