Reply to post: Re: Austism Defense

Software engineer jailed for 2 years after using RATs and crypters to steal underage victims' intimate pics

kirk_augustin@yahoo.com

Re: Austism Defense

Sure you can still tell right from wrong with autism, but that does not mean the judge was right to convict him, because collecting images off other computers is not wrong and even someone without autism should be able to understand computers well enough to understand that. Computer networking works by the computer being essentially public. The crime would be damaging files, not copying them. Merely copying them harms no one. If you think that violates privacy, you would be ignorant because no computer on a network can ever be private.

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