Twenty-Five Years in Prison for Helping Hackers? Seriously?
Views - MIT Technology Review 2013-03-28
Summary:
A maximum sentence of 25 years for enabling hackers to vandalize a news website is totally nuts.
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it indicted Matthew Keys, 26, Reuter’s deputy social media editor, for allegedly enabling some members of hacker organization Anonymous to hack and change content on the LA Times website back in 2010. The possible maximum sentence he could face if convicted? Twenty-five years in prison.