Hacking news - is it severe enough? Criticisms please!

LONDON (Reuters) - Computer hacking, an offence police once dismissed as a teenage prank, would carry a maximum two-year prison term as part of a revised cybercrime law proposed by MPs.

Is this too lenient as a maximum prison term?

Source available from http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=538680&section=news

I would like to stress that if this happens and the prosecution feel that two years is not enough they may be able to successfully prosecute the defendants on a charge of criminal damage, yes that is possible depending on the circumstances. If this happens the maximum is 7 years from my understanding.

Any other thoughts?

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Reply 1

Don Quixote

No. But I think everyone should get life for whatever they do, I think that would be a deterrent. John Walsh (man who's son was kidnapped by a sex offender and decapitated, campaigns for victims rights in the USA) calls it the Criminal injustice system. I think that's a very clever play on words.

Reply 2

Unregistered

depends for wat it is and how much damage is caused

Reply 3

too lenient. hackers are losers who don;t have lives anyway, so wouldn;t really matter if they got life :biggrin:

Reply 4

Walk By

lol tk migth have something to say about this... :biggrin:

Reply 5

Unregistered

Walk By

lol tk migth have something to say about this... :biggrin:

Reply 6

Walk By

Tinykates

too lenient. hackers are losers who don;t have lives anyway, so wouldn;t really matter if they got life :biggrin:

damn, she got there before me

Reply 7

Cate

haha

Reply 8

Cate

haha

hehe

Reply 9

Unregistered

thats a wise move to have deleted that

Reply 10

DazYaZZZ

thats a wise move to have deleted that

sounds like a threat!

Reply 11

Unregistered

Tinykates

sounds like a threat!

nah, you would have just maken yourself look stupid :smile:

Reply 12

NDGAARONDI

Tinykates

too lenient. hackers are losers who don;t have lives anyway, so wouldn;t really matter if they got life :biggrin:

Well lets put it this way. Someone could cause £50000 worth of criminal damage and get 7 years in prison. A hacker could cause a lot more and only get two. Is this logical?

On the deterrent note, it's detection which is the main deterrent and not the gravity of the offence.

Reply 13

musicbloke

DazYaZZZ

nah, you would have just maken yourself look stupid :smile:

Once again daz, the pot calling the kettle black.

MB

Reply 14

priya

on a side note- walk by..how come you've changed account so many times?

Reply 15

musicbloke

priya

on a side note- walk by..how come you've changed account so many times?

Because he is a troll who keeps getting banned and just comes here to annoy everyone.

MB

Reply 16

NDGAARONDI

So what do people think should be the maximum amount? 10 years? Life?

Reply 17

NDGAARONDI

So what do people think should be the maximum amount? 10 years? Life?

life

Reply 18

tis_me_lord

Life's too harsh, i'd say about 5 years.

Reply 19

Cossack

Why not use some kind of clockwork orange conditioning so that when a convicted hacker gets near a computer they start to feel really really ill...that'd work