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Online mob (poll) would hang hackers high
The majority of people polled by a security firm said that the teenager sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for spawning a variant of the MSBlast worm deserved tougher punishment.
In the online poll released Wednesday by U.K.-based security vendor Sophos, 53 percent of those surveyed said that Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, received a too-lenient sentence. Only 14 percent said the jail time was too much.
By Gregg Keizer at InformationWeek.
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To hack back or not to hack back?
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Reactions from the security community to the NSA spying scandal
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