15 years in prison for a simple SQL injection and publishing of data?<p>What else gets you 15 years in the UK?
- Repeated rape of same victim over a course of time or rape involving multiple victims : 15 years custody
- Rape accompanied by abduction: 11 - 17 years
- Murder if aged 18 or over at date of offence: minimum term of 15 years<p>Right. Leaking data is punishable at the same level as rape and murder. Great country.
"He is also accused of using a proxy server to further avoid detection."<p>Accused seems like an odd word to use here. In UK and US jurisdictions the fact that you used a proxy to commit a crime does not make any difference to the scale of the crime does it?
The saddest thing about the lulzsec situation is that they are being burned at the proverbial stake for witchcraft while they seemed to be more interested in embarrassing and exposing the ridiculous state of security and security firms touting snake oil potions, lotions, and creams. Did lulzsec actually sell or cause damage with all the information they exposed publicly? (and please don't add any trite herpie-derpie about how posting it publicly makes them complicit or accessories in some form or fashion. It's a stupid and moot point that only exposes you as an idiot. As the article states and the government has been officially proclaiming, these were not sophisticated actions or attacks. They were the lowest of the low hanging fruit that was already so ripe it was starting to rot.<p>This is a clear and pathetic primitive case of the messengers being shot. Granted, they may have been a pretty shitty and annoying kind of messenger to the nationalist and apologist types, but they were messengers of a hidden danger. For as much as I don't necessarily agree with how those events transpired (to be as general as possible in describing the lulzsec-era in internet history). Our society does not provide an avenue for the creative and constructive exposure and notification of such issues. Many human societies, especially the American one is fundamentally incapable of adopting to the new realities that are forming. A rational and intelligent person would realize that, not only has our (American) society never been a very civilized and peaceful one, but it has gotten worse by significant magnitude over the last decade and the facade of peace and civility is starting to chip and wear thin as our dogmatic Constitutional framework becomes ever more weak with age and sabotage. There is ever growing institutional inertia to control, lock-down, monitor, hide, and penalize on trajectory of draconian levels. Civil society is showing strains and cracks and the destructive demons that civil society always has to be vigilant about restraining are pressing against their boundaries and straining their shackles.<p>Some may find the above exaggerated or flamboyant, but consider that there is not a single horrific period or action in human history that was a choice from one day to another and they all arise through creep...they ALL are creep; while the truly righteous are negligently satiated.