Hi everyone, So I writing you to gather some very targeted "intel" about hax0rs and sentencing .
My RA, Maya Richman, is about to embark on a research project that addresses differential hacker sentencing in Germany, Australia, Japan, UK, France, Canada, Sweden, US and the Netherlands. The project will be geared towards documenting and comparing fines and jail times for sentenced, preferably non-malicious, hackers, although a few pure criminal cases would also help gauge differences in sentences. So far it has been difficult to gather the names of the "Kevin Mitnick's" of each respective country--hackers breaking laws for non-criminal purposes--as the media focuses on credit-card and celebrity-targeted hacks. My sense is the US is exceptionally harsh but we don't have the data to back it up. We also prefer arrests and sentencing that have transpired in the last 15 years but we will gladly take names from earlier periods as well. A handful of straight up computer crime cases (for carding for instance) will also be useful as well. If you can point us to names of hackers who were sentenced or key events that you think are representative and influential for computer crime law in the countries listed above it would really help us get this project off the ground. Please include Maya and I on the reply as I am only subscribed by digest and I don't think she is on this list (but may very well be after this email ;) All best, Biella -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
