I normally try to refrain from posting until I’ve both had my morning caffeine and have walked away for a bit, but…
Have you ever lost a loved one to “manslaughter”? If you have, you know as well as I that they were murdered. If you drink and then get in a car, you have no excuse when something bad happens because everyone knows what happens when one goes drinkdriving – bad things, this is current year after all. It is no defense if you claim to be too rich to comprehend that personal actions have personal consequences.
An action that results in the death of another person is inherently worse than an act that results in the change of a few innocuous characters on a computer for a brief amount of time – characters that cannot be mistaken for actual news vs taking the lives of FOUR PEOPLE?!? Only in late stage capitalism could the punishment for those two actions be the same.
Hacking is/was “the great equalizer” on the intertubes, where the disenfranchised could wield just as much power as a nation state (up until about 1997) and can still wield about as much power as any corporation. No wonder the book is thrown at them whenever they’re caught! If they can’t be caught? Just get close enough and punish them as an example.
The real blame for the LA Times defacement lies with the InfoSec team @ the LA Times for not changing out the credential pair for a former employee (left in 2010) and yet were still active (in 2011) – likely any “employment agreement” that would have had him keep that information secret had long since expired. But NO, when corporations fsk up, it’s not their fault, it’s always someone else’s – just like the rich.
Keys still denies all allegations. Why not believe him?
Don’t forget, the Judge who sentenced the “affluenza teen”, when speaking to the press about the two year sentence noted: FTA Defense attorneys asked the judge Wednesday for a lesser jail sentence. “Nothing I do is in stone, so I might reconsider,” Salvant said. The case reconvenes in two weeks.
