[citation][nom]c123s234[/nom]So wait... I thought stupidity wasn't a crime. These people failed to actively protect their personal devices, why he he getting punished for that. It'd be like someone dropping a $20 bill out of ther pocket without realizing it and someone picking it to keep it. Immoral, yes... but is it a crime? Not really, or at least in this example extremely difficulty to punish. These ~72,000 victims don't deserve this "justice." Short of these systems relaying a message that they'll prosecute unathorized access attempts. I doubt any of these people did, since it really isn't a common thing to do at all.The U.S. courts aren't for policing online activity, and if people don't like that they shouldn't connect their computers to the Internet. Seriously....Now, why am I defending this guy?I'm not, I'm just saying I don't like the fact they went after this guy. I pay taxes. The amount of money that goes into prosecuting and then incarserating this guy is hardly worth my money for other citizens being foolish. They got what they deserved. They opened up their personal information and put a "free" sign on it. When will people start taking some damn responsibility for being stupid?Before you make the argument that if I were one of them I'd want something done about it, try again... I would have got what I deserved. Sure it would be a nightmare to deal with fixing everything, but if they really got pass the secruity then it was my own damn fault.[/citation]
*Smashes your car's windshield, and steals your $20 bill that was lying on the dashboard.*
Yeah, IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR NOT INSTALLING UNBREAKABLE GLASS ON YOUR CAR, MORON!
(One of my uncles is a police officer, and he said that one of his buddies' police car's windshield was destroyed because of a $10 bill lying on the dashboard.)