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Re:Florida programmer arrested for gaining unauthorized acce... by slavik81 on Saturday September 03, 2016 @03:53AM (#12418227)
If anything, I would think that the bail would indicate he's unlikely to receive the maximum sentence. I suspect that few do. That said, I am not a lawyer.

Edit: A bit about the United States Sentencing Guidelines, linked from the lwn thread: https://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-el...

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Re:Florida programmer arrested for gaining unauthorized acce... by jrockway on Saturday September 03, 2016 @04:35AM (#12418339)
Yeah. On some level, I try to get people to read "he faces up to ..." as "he faces no more than ..."

Still though, a little disproportionate.

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