Maybe the backwards data shows rapists getting longer sentences than hackers, but I doubt that’ll be the case in 10 years, just as for a long time we thought America had the most social mobility in the West, when that hasn’t been true for a couple decades, at least.
If convicted of hacking-related crimes, Lostutter could face up to 10 years behind bars—far more than the one- and two-year sentences doled out to the Steubenville rapists.
jawbone
Well, the Steubenville rapiest were, after all, football players, so that explains some of the discrepancy.
Heh. /snark
Thanks for the update.
Notorious P.A.T.
“This is your justice system. This is what they think of women.”
Is that the justice system that gives women lighter sentences for the same crimes as men?
I think it’s ludicrous that this hacker is being prosecuted, but let’s not make of this issue something that it is not.
cambridgemac
“Is that the justice system that gives women lighter sentences for the same crimes as men?”
It’s the justice system that says a Texas man who kills a female escort who doesn’t “deliver” goes scot free. I don’t have the stats, but I’m reasonably certain that if the roles were reversed, the woman would not go free.
Oh, and the only (??) person jailed in recent years for insider trading, which is endemic on Capitol Hill and Wall Street, was a woman.
ks
“Oh, and the only (??) person jailed in recent years for insider trading, which is endemic on Capitol Hill and Wall Street, was a woman.
That’s not true at all. Raj Rajaratnam got 11 years, Gupta will probably get almost as much, Allen Stanford got 10 years, and so on. Even a casual look at the SEC’s website will disprove your point.
hipparchia
this post has the same flavor as all those justifications for the war in afghanistan that were aimed at feminists: “if we cut and run and let the taliban win, just think what they’ll do to your sisters!”
ot1h, yeah out those raping bastards, the sooner the better.
otoh, i’m not at all in favor of living in a society patrolled by vigilantes. that’s not any more free and open than a police state.
plus, it’s not just the govt that isn’t supposed to engage in unreasonable search and seizure, we used to believe that no one should, citizens included, and had laws against wiretapping and messing with other people’s mail…
Ian Welsh
Rape is worse than hacking to find out about rape.
Don’t have much time for those who think otherwise, male or female.
Also, hacking to reveal rape not even on the same order of bad as occupying an entire country with troops.
The inability to make these distinctions is remarkable, yet unsurprising.