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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 21-year-old computer whiz was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for taking control of 400,000 Internet-connected computers and renting access to them to spammers and fellow hackers. [more]Its not like we dont have enough SPAM problems as it is!! :mad: He better be glad though he didn't gain any access to classified information,or he might have been in even worse trouble.

I wish that people would stop referring to these little punks as "hackers". These rotten little brats are "crackers". A person who cracks means to do damage, a person who hacks means to improve a system. If lazy twerps like this could actually apply their knowledge to a real job somewhere, they would be set for life.

He must have had good legal representation. He should have gotten more than that.

Everytime a cracker or spammer get's jailtime is a good day imo :thumb: