Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond knew that he was going to serve serious time for his persona in the2011 hack of Stratfor Global Intelligence .
But holy crap , the judge discombobulate the book at the guy ! The 28 - year - old Chicago nativewas just sentence to 10 years in federal prison . For hacking .
Let ’s put that into perspective . Ten year is a very farseeing time , more than a third of Hammond ’s integral life up to this dot . That ’s nigh twice the amount of jail time that theinfamous hacker Kevin Mitnick — who was the most - wanted computer criminal in the country at one point — served . As CNET ’s Declan McCullaghpoints out , it ’s also significantly more than the ordinary prison time serves for murder , which is less than six years . All that fourth dimension for a series of keystrokes .
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-become-the-most-wanted-hacker-in-the-world-5834494
Of course , whoop can be a very destructive number . Hackerscan shut down power grids , send trains off their track , and even bring the global fiscal system of rules to its knees . That ’s not what Hammond did , though . Hammond helped break into Stratfor ’s internet and steal as much as 200 GB of information , admit email messages and credit bill of fare numbers . Some of that information was later released by WikiLeaksas the Global Intelligence Files , and the hacker reportedly used the acknowledgment cards to donate millions to charity , though that was never confirmed .
Hammond break the law , and he pleaded shamed to one count under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ( CFAA ) . Ten age is a passably intense sentence , one that Hammond sound out is nothing but a “ vindictive , spiteful act ” designed to discourage more politically motivated hacking . In fact , he told The Guardian that would ’ve happened if it had n’t been for Hector Xavier Monsegur ( a.k.a . Sabu ) , whowas working as an FBI informant at the time and gave Hammond the orders to do the literary hack .
https://gizmodo.com/was-the-antisec-hacking-spree-an-fbi-front-all-along-5893703
“ I had never heard of Stratfor until Sabu brought in another hacker who secernate me about it , ” Hammondtold The Guardian a few hours before his sentencing . “ much , I would never have done the Stratfor taxi without Sabu ’s participation . ” Asked how that made him feel , Hammond say , “ I felt up rat , obviously . Though I knew these things befall . What surprise me was that Sabu was ask in so much strategic targeting , in actually identifying targets . He gave me the information on quarry . ”
The idea that the Stratfor machine politician was nothing but an FBI stingis not a new one . Not long after Sabu was arrested and then identified as an witnesser , the drudge biotic community quickly come to the finis that some of the hacks he ’d order were actually FBI operation , admit some attacks on foreign governments . Sabu , meanwhile , has yet to be sentencedfor the 12 hacking - relate charges to which he ’s pleaded guilty .
It remains to be seen whether Hammond will become Anonymous ’s biggest whipping boy . But he sure will have peck of clock time to think about it . [ The Guardian ]
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