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Re:Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990 by twoodfin on Friday January 18, 2013 @08:39AM (#5078524)
Who really knows what he would have gotten. rtm could have faced jail time, and the prosecutors apparently wanted it according to this contemporaneous essay:

http://potifos.com/morris.html

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Re:Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990 by koide on Friday January 18, 2013 @10:11AM (#5078970)
Key point regarding Aaron: "It is hard to imagine Morris doing anything like the Internet worm again, so the need to lock him up is anything but pressing."
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