[126090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Terry Childs conviction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Brockway)
Thu Apr 29 22:24:01 2010
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:27:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Brockway <robert@timetraveller.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1272593114.29108.46.camel@petrie>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, William Pitcock wrote:
> Same difference, he still committed a crime and anyone who is defending
> him seems to not understand this. Whatever we want to call that crime,
> it's still a crime, and he got the appropriate penalty.
Hi William. I have to agree that it does seem he committed an offence but
we will have to agree to disagree on the penalty. Two years (or more) in
jail for withholding a password for one week seems disproportionate to me.
I wonder how expensive the trial was.
Rob
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