Reply to post: Re: Will the right people be punished fairly?

Newb admits he ran Satori botnet that turned thousands of hacked devices into a 100Gbps+ DDoS-for-hire cannon

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Re: Will the right people be punished fairly?

Down vote for equating leaving your doors unlocked with selling door locks that open as soon as you push on them a bit.

Really? As far as I can tell, there would be no substantive difference in mens rea.

You could try to lob a civil case at the ISP arguing duty of care or diligence (if that wasn't excluded by default in the Terms by most ISPs), but as far as I can tell it would not change one iota in the criminal exposure of the hacker.

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