Decius wrote:

Given these facts, a year and half in prison is way outside the scope of what justice requires in this case. Its a sentence that is so far outside the scope of what is objectively reasonable that it shocks the conscience. It seems an obvious consequence of technical ignorance on the part of the decision makers as to the actual mechanism through which this outage was created and to its actual impact on users of the network. This sentence is a far greater evil than the act it seeks to rectify and it should not pass without remark.

I do recall having said something about this sentencing in comparison to some actually nasty criminals busted at approximately the same time with respect to what we should be holding the feds responsible for.

There's no sense in being nice and cooperative twith "the authorities" if they're just going to go back to being dicks like in the 80's.

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