'Guilty' Verdict for Russian Who Stole 117M Dropbox and LinkedIn Login Codes in 2012 (msn.com) 31
In 2012 "Russian hacker" Yevgeniy Nikulin breached the internal networks of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, and then sold their user databases on the black market, reports ZDNet. (He stole 117 million login codes, according to Bloomberg.) Nikulin was arrested in 2016 (while on vacation in the Czech Republic), and after an extradition battle spent years in U.S. prisons while awaiting his trial, which Bloomberg calls "an ongoing constitutional violation that deeply distressed U.S. District Judge William Alsup."
Yesterday a jury finally found Nikulin guilty: It was the first trial in Northern California since the coronavirus pandemic shut Bay Area courtrooms in mid-March... The trial started in early March but was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and a shelter-in-place order for the Bay Area on March 16, when almost all in-person court hearings were postponed nationwide... Forced by circumstances to twice delay the trial, Alsup stood firm on a July 7 start. The judge, Nikulin and lawyers wore masks. Witnesses testified from behind a glass panel...
Nikulin is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 29. The Justice Department said he faces as long as 10 years in prison for each count of selling stolen usernames and passwords, installing malware on protected computers and as many as five years for each count of conspiracy and computer hacking. He also faces a mandatory two year sentence for identity theft, according to prosecutors.
Yesterday a jury finally found Nikulin guilty: It was the first trial in Northern California since the coronavirus pandemic shut Bay Area courtrooms in mid-March... The trial started in early March but was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and a shelter-in-place order for the Bay Area on March 16, when almost all in-person court hearings were postponed nationwide... Forced by circumstances to twice delay the trial, Alsup stood firm on a July 7 start. The judge, Nikulin and lawyers wore masks. Witnesses testified from behind a glass panel...
Nikulin is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 29. The Justice Department said he faces as long as 10 years in prison for each count of selling stolen usernames and passwords, installing malware on protected computers and as many as five years for each count of conspiracy and computer hacking. He also faces a mandatory two year sentence for identity theft, according to prosecutors.
Life (Score:1)
They're just going to stack it as life. You violated the corporatocrat leaders' sanctuary.
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"According to other estimates, at the beginning of 1953 the total number of prisoners in prison camps was more than 2.4 million of which more than 465,000 were political prisoners."
Not quite, but close:
"As of 2016, 2.3 million people were incarcerated in the United States, at a rate of 698 people per 100,000. Additionally, 4,751,400 adults in 2013 (1 in 51) were on probation or on parole. In total, 6,899,000 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2013 – abou
1 in 35 currently in correctional supervision (Score:2)
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"We have been happily borne--or perhaps have unhappily dragged our weary way--down the long and crooked streets of our lives, past all kinds of walls and fences made of rotting wood, rammed earth, brick, concrete, iron railings. We have never given a thought to what lies behind them. We have never tried to penetrate them with our vision or our understanding. But there is where Gulag country begins, right next to us, two yards away from us."
- Solzhenitsyn
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wtf USA that is crazy. It also seems to be very much different from my white privileged view of the USA. I've lived there a number of times and I only know one person who has ever spent time in jail and that was for a day for an unpaid dog license.
That must have been quite a while ago. In the interim the US has created something they call the 'prison industrial complex' which has become a $5+ billion industry that is able to underbid Indian, Chinese and Bangladeshi sweatshops on (slave) labour costs.
25 - 212 (Score:2)
President Trump has indeed issued 25 pardons.
For reference, that compares to 212 convicted criminals pardoned by Barack Obama.
In total, Obama gave clemency to 1,927 criminals, the most since Harry Truman.
Re:25 - 212 (Score:5, Informative)
President Trump has indeed issued 25 pardons.
For reference, that compares to 212 convicted criminals pardoned by Barack Obama.
In total, Obama gave clemency to 1,927 criminals, the most since Harry Truman.
Most of whom were jailed for relatively minor offenses and often were sentenced to a short terms, or were given harsh snetences due to the "war on drugs" for relatively minor acts, comrade.
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> Most of whom were jailed for relatively minor offenses and often were sentenced to a short terms
I'm curious what you mean when you say "short terms", since the pardon process, from application to president's signature, generally takes about two years. Meaning it would be utterly pointless to apply for a sentence of 2-3 years or less.
Btw - are you totally guessing here, making stuff up, or do you actually know anything about the topic? Here on Slashdot, sometimes you gotta ask.
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Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks. A traitor in every sense, in 2013 Manning was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Obama also commuted the sentence of convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera, the leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN), a Puerto Rican terrorist group. FALN was responsible for 130 attacks in the United States, and at least six deaths. An
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When I weigh the potential liability of a 74 year old man to society against the high and ever-increasing costs of keeping him in prison I'd probably make the same decision.
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Re:25 - 212 (Score:4, Insightful)
Some people seem to think that soldiers swear loyalty to a person or to the government, when, in point of fact, they swear allegiance to the Constitution--and to defend it, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
This is crucial to maintaining our freedom. Allegiance to our ideals is more important than allegiance to the particular group of people running the government that day.
Re:25 - 212 (Score:4, Insightful)
We considered whether Trump’s pardons and commutations can be explained by one or more of four criteria: (1) Did it advance a clear political goal of the president?; (2) Did the person who was pardoned have a personal connection to Trump or someone Trump knows well?; (3) Was the person who was pardoned brought to the President’s attention by television or a television commentator?; (4) Was the pardon based on Trump’s admiration for celebrity? . . .
The bottom line: In 31 of the 36 Trump pardons/commutations, at least one (and often more than one) of these criteria were satisfied.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/tr... [lawfareblog.com]
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Re: Trump Pardon (Score:1)
Roger Stone was not pardoned, Michael Flynn has also not been pardoned along with plenty of exculpatory evidence hidden by FBI and prosecutors coming to light. But keep fucking that chicken you TDS infested dumbass.
Re: Trump Pardon (Score:2)
Pardon is not commutation. Among other things, a pardon does not allow the person to continue appealing the sentence as it requires an admission of guilt. Funny then that Stone is continuing to appeal if his only concern is avoiding jail time. Then there's the fact that his crimes come from an illegitimate investigation stemming around a falsified dossier and the purported Russian connections of a CIA asset, as well as a political witch hunt ordered by the previous POTUS which continually withheld exculpato
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Re: Trump Pardon (Score:2)
Obama: Have the right people on the Flynn case.
Wow. That didn't take long. (Score:2)
Trump will just pardon him like he has for every convicted criminal so far.
Literally the second post on a topic that has nothing to do with Trump, some idiot makes it about Trump. And gets modded up to boot.
Blah blah blah (Score:2)
More blah blah blah as to why a criminal should not be in prison.
I'm just going to start printing "Diplomatic Immunity" t-shirts so no one ever has to worry about the repercussions from criminal acts.
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Damn right, he should be sentenced to a year in prison for each login hacked, kept alive and tortured the whole time. No mercy. Criminals aren't human.
Nothing was Stolen (Score:2, Interesting)
I am quite sure that nothing was "stolen". Copied, perhaps. But not "stolen".
I really wish these idiots would learn the English language.
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"Copied, perhaps. But not "stolen" "
It was "stolen" enough to be sold. He sold copies of the stolen databases on the black market.
There is no need to insult journalists for not being as tech-savvy as you.
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"He sold copies of the stolen databases on the black market."
No, He sold copies of the copied database on the black market.
Nothing was "stolen", merely copied.