On 15 January 2013 12:40, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2013/1/15 Anthony Cartmell <[email protected]> >>> >>> It shows the hostility the courts have to hacking in general. Even >>> reduced >>> on appeal the starting point (before allowance for the early guilty plea) >>> was 6 months in prison. >> >> >> That's amazing. You can kill someone with a motor vehicle and normally >> expect to be punished with a small fine and perhaps a short driving ban, if >> anything. > > > Joe Ury (of Bailii) has just emailed me that he has put the decision up: > > http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2012/973.html
Thanks for highlighting the hostility of the courts towards hacking, Francis -- I found some of the judgements referred to there extraordinary. Someone deleting some data from websites in revenge for being sacked to "cause inconvenience" (no revenue loss) getting 9 months! Seb _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
