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Thread #113134 Message #2691046
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
31-Jul-09 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hacker to be extradited to the US
Subject: RE: BS: Hacker extradited to the US
His statement that he was only after UFO coverups is A. Self-serving and after the fact, and so questionable
and it is also
B. Irrelevant.
His denial of the amount of damage done is, as far as I can understand, both self-serving and beyond his possible knowledge.
His Asperger's syndrome status (which I'll assume to be true) was not so extreme as to prevent an elaborate and sustained technical effort. Asperger's is not a fixed-quantity sort of thing, and nothing in what I've read so far really tells much about the real severity of his condition.
There was a comment in the linked article essentially protesting about the extent of the penalty. Those figures (70 years, as I recall reading), when tossed around like this in news media, are meaningless, because they merely add up the legal maximum-possible sentences, which are seldom or never actually imposed.