On 24/05/2014 15:12 pm, John Young wrote: > USG asks for time served (7 months) as Sabu's sentence for > "extraordinary cooperation" with FBI to rat, admit, aid. > > http://cryptome.org/2014/05/monsegur-029-030.pdf
Interesting! Aside from the human interest aspects of the story, the FBI calculates some damages (blue page 8, edited to drop non-damages estimates): ============= In the PSR, Probation correctly calculates that the defendant’s base offense level is 7 pursuant to U.S.S.G. §2B1.1(a)(1) and correctly applies a 22-level enhancement in light of a loss amount between $20 million and $50 million [4]; a 6-level enhancement given that the offense involved more than 250 victims; _____ 4 This loss figure includes damages caused not only by hacks in which Monsegur personally and directly participated, but also damages from hacks perpetrated by Monsegur’s co- conspirators in which he did not directly participate. Monsegur’s actions personally and directly caused between $1,000,000 and $2,500,000 in damages. ============ That last number range of $1m to 2.5m is interesting, and can be contrasted to his 10 direct victims (listed on blue pages 5-6) exploited over a 1 year period. One could surmise that this isn't an optimal solution. E.g., hypothetically, if the 10 victims were to pay each a tenth of their losses, they'd raise a salary of 100-250k and put perp to productive work, and we'd all be in net profit [0]. Obviously this didn't efficiently solve in society due to information problems. LulzEconSec, anyone? iang [0] additional comments on the 'profit' side: blue page 13: "Although difficult to quantify, it is likely that Monsegur’s actions prevented at least millions of dollars in loss to these victims." blue page 16: "Through Monsegur’s cooperation, the FBI was able to thwart or mitigate at least 300 separate hacks. The amount of loss prevented by Monsegur’s actions is difficult to fully quantify, but even a conservative estimate would yield a loss prevention figure in the millions of dollars." _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography