Hacker jailed for 5 years
p2p news / p2pnet: A 21-year-old American has been jailed nearly five years for allegedly building a network of 400,000 Zombie PCs to install adware and send spam.
Jeanson James Ancheta, "came to the attention of the authorities after trying to infect computers at the weapons division of the US Naval Air Warfare Centre in China Lake and the Defence Information Systems Agency," says vnunet.com.
We’d like to ask your opinion on the sentence, says Finland’s F-Secure. Accordingly, it’s running a pole which asks:
What is your opinion of BotMaster James Ancheta’s 57 month jail sentence?
- Too Much
- Too Little
- Fair Enough – Just Right
- No Idea
For now, F-Secure also offers other jail terms to think about:
November 2004 – Spammer, Jeremy Jaynes, sentenced nine years.
January 2005 – Blaster.B author, Jeffrey Lee Parson, sentenced 18 months.
July 2005 – Sasser author, Sven Jaschan, sentenced 21 months (Suspended – Age 17 at time of arrest).
Also See:
vnunet.com – Spammer gets five in the slammer, May 10, 2006
F-Secure – Poll: James Got 57 Months, May 9, 2006
May 10th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
I think it’s fair. He’s a menace.
Now compare this to the uk hacker who could possibly get 70 years. He wasn’t mass-infecting peoples computers with spyware. I think this american spyware diseminator is much more of a menace.
Notice how they never take any action until it starts affecting the government?
May 10th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
He only got that sentence because he messed with <sarcasm> precious </sarcasm> government computers. Had it been the computers of ordinary citizens or those of small businesses, I most likely would have never been prosecuted.
May 11th, 2006 at 3:58 am
My opinion is that spammers should receive one papercut per recipient for every email they have ever sent. In this case i reckon he’d suffer a few million or so.
Also between the administering of each papercut they should be tossed into a saltwater swimming pool. To ensure the cuts remain clean and don’t get infected of course.
May 11th, 2006 at 5:42 am
To hell with the paper cut’s they should cut off something a little farther south!!!!! Down below!!!!
May 11th, 2006 at 6:56 am
In the 90’s one of my friends was killed by a 14 year old bitch when I was younger…. she was released when she turned 18 and brags about how she’s killed before and she can do it again…..
Yet a hacker will be in jail longer than her? WTF is wrong with this picture?
May 11th, 2006 at 7:20 am
ya, and if they lose the password to his cell door. . . no problem. To bad he’s going to be serving it in federal holding. He’d be a cell block sweet heart in any state pen.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:39 am
in the US murder charges (minus manslaughter) generally carry a heavier sentence than zombie master’s. However here in Canada, that’s not the case….does anyone have any sentencing info on crackers (not hackers dammit) here in Canada? Have we even sentenced anyone? Some of our citizens (mafiaboy) have been sentenced in the US, but I can’t recall a case tried within in our own borders.
TT
May 11th, 2006 at 11:40 am
actually, I’m not sure now re mafiaB…must google that and see…
TT
May 11th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
all i can say is HACKER RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he shouldn’t go to jail!!!