Comments on: Data thief gets eight years

Spammer who looted more than a billion records from a massive data repository is sentenced to a lengthy prison stay.

[kamwmail-cnet1]

Forced anti-PC Conditioning would be nice

Force this piece of **** to go through a drug and torture induced conditioning against ever manipulating any electronic data will be nice. It can't be trusted around electronics, EVER.

[dave aszenine]

You first...

:)

[Seaspray0]

I love news like this

Not only was he a hack but a spammer as well. I hope he ends up as a prison sex toy to a big man named bubba.

[rlunderhill]

Gets eight years

This made my day. He should have received 18 years. That would really send a message to all the spammers, and data snatchers out there.
Good job

[209979377489953107664053243186]

Data theft success is rampant

Excellent, the thief was caught, but not until he had already accessed and jeopardized numerous accounts. The problem here is that poor security practices come from a combination of not knowing the best solutions (encryption is great, but encryption with rights management is even better) and a fear of the massive overhead costs for implementing many of the "known" solutions. Get the facts and look to better, more cost effective solutions.

http://www.essentialsecurity.com/educationalfacts.htm