<i>"At the time of his arrest in 2017, Clark was a security researcher working for Malwarebytes, and made the hacks from his family home."</i><p><i>"Clark was given a 15 month prison sentence, suspended (or delayed) for 18 months. So as long as he stays out of trouble for the next year and a half, he won't have to spend any time inside. At sentencing, Judge Alexander Milne QC said he was spared a custodial sentence because of the efforts made by his parents—his mother has quit her job so that she can aid his rehabilitation and supervision—and reports that he would suffer unduly in prison due to a combination of autism and face blindness."</i><p>I was a bit stunned by this. It makes me think of how politicians, at times, voice physical health / mental health as the key problem when bad things happen to the public (e.g., bullying and school shootings). Sometimes they place more weigh on the individual(s) circumstances and view it as an isolated event, and fail to look into structural problems. I wonder how the courts in the USA would have resolved this - would this be labeled as an isolated incident or would they think more carefully about this on a policy level?