Interview a hacker who went to jail

1hr 45min!

tl;dw

Ya, I skip around on it.
Basically the guy hacked Lowes. He and a small group was getting credit cards way back when before they were encrypted. He only stole 6, but he had his software collecting some.
They gave him 30 years in jail because it was marked as a conspiracy, and they can say what you could’ve stolen at that point (which is BS). He got it reduce by helping point out how to keep others from doing what he did.

The important part about this is because he got caught, he still can’t get jobs. His first parole officer actually tried to go to a judge and keep him from using a computer again. Because of that he had to move.
So basically, don’t do stupid stuff like this or these things can happen to you. It’s not like the movies where the FBI or something else comes up to you and ask you for a job.

So you commit a “crime” to make money, and as part of the punishment you can never get a legal job again…….

Does anyone else see why that is terribly counter-productive?

It also seems very counter-intuitive if you approach it from the premise that the criminal justice system in the US is designed to stop crime.
It actually makes a lot of sense though, when you realize that the criminal justice system is a way to generate revenue (through tickets and fines, the privatization of prisons, and by using convicts as cheap labor).

Many people are in jail for no reason…
Do not be surprised.

@R4kk00n

I think that justice is just here to “judge bad people” and punish people that do things they did not want them to do, even if that thing is not “bad”. These things are listed in the law, where you can find some things that may not look that bad.
Therefore, a bunch of people are in jails for no reasons :/