Re:Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak
by rfnslyr on Friday November 15, 2013 @07:55PM
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That's fair. However, by putting them in a cell you're effectively disabling them from everything else in their life just to take away their ability to hack. Treat the crime accordingly.
His crime is in the internet domain. Monitor his internet traffic or take away his personal computer rights.
It's treating the symptom by eradicating all possible causes by throwing the man in prison for a decade.
It's like the russians, bombing and burning all their land so the enemy stands no chance. I think it's wrong to take that approach in this case, but hey, I guess I have some semblance of empathy.
You seem to think that the only possible way to be a menace to society is with actual violence. What a positively uncreative viewpoint! Surely you can think of some way to absolutely ruin a person's life without so much as a hint of violence? Likewise, perhaps punching someone in the shoulder isn't as vicious a crime as, say, cleaning out all of their bank accounts via computer hacking?