XPost: alt.computer.workshop, alt.politics.scorched-earth, uk.politics.misc   
   XPost: uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:30:00 +0100   
   "David B."  wrote:   
      
   > Adam Mudd jailed for two years for creating attack-for-hire business    
   > responsible for more than 1.7m breaches worldwide   
   >    
   > Adam Mudd was 16 when he created the Titanium Stresser program, which    
   > carried out more than 1.7m attacks on websites including Minecraft,   
   > Xbox Live and Microsoft and TeamSpeak, a chat tool for gamers.   
   >    
   > He earned the equivalent of more than £386,000 in US dollars and    
   > bitcoins from selling the program to cybercriminals.   
   >    
   > Mudd pleaded guilty and was sentenced at the Old Bailey. The judge,    
   > Michael Topolski QC, noted that Mudd came from a “perfectly   
   > respectable and caring family”. He said the effect of Mudd’s crimes   
   > had wreaked havoc “from Greenland to New Zealand, from Russia to   
   > Chile”.   
   >    
   > Topolski said the sentence must have a “real element of deterrent”   
   > and refused to suspend the jail term. “I’m entirely satisfied that   
   > you knew full well and understood completely this was not a game for   
   > fun,” he told Mudd. “It was a serious money-making business and your   
   > software was doing exactly what you created it to do.”   
   >    
   > Mudd showed no emotion as he was sent to a young offender institution.   
   >    
   > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/25/teenage-hac   
   er-adam-mudd-jailed-masterminding-attacks-sony-microsoft   
   >    
      
   So what mr "bad guy""hunter" you had nothing to do   
   with it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)