Palin E-Mail Hacker Convicted on 2 of 4 Charges

Mr. Spite said:
If I were the judge, I'd probably give him a break. But I don't know the specifics or the sentencing guidelines here. I was just thinking up the maximum possible sentence that I wouldn't think of as outrageous beyond all reason.
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He was convicted of a misdemeanor for the substantive offense and then got hit with felony obstruction of justice for wiping his hard drive, which obviously didn't work.

He's basically an idiot kid that managed to gain access to an idiot politician's email by guessing the answers to her security questions using publicly available information. To even call him a "hacker" is to denigrate real hackers everywhere.
 
NigelTufnel said:
He was convicted of a misdemeanor for the substantive offense and then got hit with felony obstruction of justice for wiping his hard drive, which obviously didn't work.

He's basically an idiot kid that managed to gain access to an idiot politician's email by guessing the answers to her security questions using publicly available information. To even call him a "hacker" is to denigrate real hackers everywhere.
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Wiping the hard drive isn't even capable of impeding justice, since the only relevant evidence was the IP address records. It was idiotic for the jury to accept that charge.

I honestly had no idea why the charges seemed to be so harsh. The prosecutor threw every ridiculous thing he could think up at the kid, I guess because it was an attack on his favorite politician.

But who he hacked should have absolutely nothing to do with his sentence or how vigorously they prosecute it. God knows if my E-Mail were hacked the prosecutors wouldn't even care. And it was Palin's private E-Mail, it had nothing (or should have had nothing) to do with government business.
 
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NigelTufnel said:
He was convicted of a misdemeanor for the substantive offense and then got hit with felony obstruction of justice for wiping his hard drive, which obviously didn't work.

He's basically an idiot kid that managed to gain access to an idiot politician's email by guessing the answers to her security questions using publicly available information. To even call him a "hacker" is to denigrate real hackers everywhere.
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your last paragraph truly shows your hack colors in full bloom nigel :)

i guess o'keefe is just as 'innocent', eh
 
Mr. Spite said:
Wiping the hard drive isn't even capable of impeding justice, since the only relevant evidence was the IP address records. It was idiotic for the jury to accept that charge.

I honestly had no idea why the charges seemed to be so harsh. The prosecutor threw every ridiculous thing he could think up at the kid, I guess because it was an attack on his favorite politician.

But who he hacked should have absolutely nothing to do with his sentence or how vigorously they prosecute it. God knows if my E-Mail were hacked the prosecutors wouldn't even care. And it was Palin's private E-Mail, it had nothing (or should have had nothing) to do with government business.
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exactly

however, would you agree that, with a more public crime, often comes a more public punishment? it is the way of justice in all corners of the world. i agree though, if someone hacked you and someone hacked palin, the sentence should be the same...
 
I think he will probably get 3-5 years, and that is what he deserves to get. Sorry, but you can't go hacking into a VP candidate's personal email account during a presidential election, and expect to get 'let off' with a slap on the wrist. A year and a half to two years, and he will be up for parole, so it's not that bad... I think Scooter Libby got a worse sentence.
 
Yurt said:
your last paragraph truly shows your hack colors in full bloom nigel :)

i guess o'keefe is just as 'innocent', eh
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I never said this kid was innocent. He was rightly convicted of a misdemeanor. The bullshit obstruction charge, the felony, was an example of prosecutors overcharging. To think that he would spend a single day in jail under the circumstances is ridiculous.

And Palin is an idiot politician: (1) for having yahoo email account to conduct state business, (2) for not deleting that account when it became publicly known (3) for not deleting that account when she became a national political figure and (4) for selecting security question that have answers that are publicly available information. I mean, this guy was able to gain access to her account by answering the security questions Palin selected. Under the circumstances, calling her an idiot is being charitable to Palin.
 
Looks like one usefull tool got burned. He claims to be a victim---so he is still thinking like a tool.

Isn't it nice of these progressive teachers---to let their students do the dirty work?

I want to see the kid do some serious time--he can thank his teachers later. A felony today---is not hard to earn. You would think teachers and marxist churches would know that.
 
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require him to watch an hour of Al Gore's speeches each day for a year.....by the time he's done he'll wish Gore had never invented the internet......
 
theMAJORITY said:
Looks like one usefull tool got burned. He claims to be a victim---so he is still thinking like a tool.

Isn't it nice of these progressive teachers---to let their students do the dirty work?

I want to see the kid do some serious time--he can thank his teachers later. A felony today---is not hard to earn. You would think teachers and marxist churches would know that.
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Why the hell do you hate teachers so much?

He shouldn't do a day in prison. Anyone who thinks otherwise should be branded an antihuman and executed.
 
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