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Feds seek public input on hacker sentencing
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-01-13

Sick and tired of a revolving door justice system that lets hackers skate with just a few measly years in prison? Or do you think that the courts are already too hard on online miscreants who sometimes go up the creek for longer than many killers?

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WTF?!? 2003-01-14
jcomeau (at) risp (dot) org [email concealed]
"how do you kill someone through a computer in the first place? I mean you can cause an indirect chain reaction to cause the businuss of some person to go bankrupt but thats as far as it goes..."

They may have been thinking of the Therac-25, a radiation machine which, due to a bug in the software...

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