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COMPUTER SKILLS PLUS NO BRAIN EQUALS 2-YEAR JAIL TERM
What do you get when you take some computer skills and combine
it with no brain? Two years in jail in the case of William
Genovese Jr.

The 29-year-old Connecticut hacker, known as "illwill," was
sentenced by a federal judge Friday to two years in prison for
selling source code for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. He
pleaded guilty last year.

An Ars Technica article does a nice job of drilling down to the
core pathos of the case. No, Genovese isn't the one who
cracked, stole or even found the incomplete Windows source code.
He just looked at it once it was circulating. Instead of
letting it rest there like many other people who aren't
currently in jail, Genovese posted the code on his own little
e-commerce site and charged $20 for it.

Microsoft bought a copy just to check, then pointed the FBI in
Genovese's direction. So, $40 in sales gets you two years in
jail.

The Ars Technica version is here:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060130-6075.html

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:4141, old post ID:33832

wow he could of at least did it more undergound, like throw it in a shared p2p folder or something, a tad harder to get caught that way (but still eventually would of probably)

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:4141, old post ID:33833

omg some people . Hope he bought a nice steak with that 40$, 'cause he'll be eating jail food for 2 years.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:4141, old post ID:33834