21 months in a federal prison is a short sentence?
This is arguably what keeps shows like Mr. Robot on the air btw. We will tolerate hackers down certain pathways and within certain constraints. Even if they're "insane". Leave the pathway and God help you.
Sometimes staying on the pathway is dangerous too, but my job is to motivate for great justice.
Edit: Don't kill or torture anyone. This should be in your base operating code anyway; if it isn't, enforce it down to pith level.
The EFF has a good breakdown of weev's sentence and the D&D-like charts and calculations used to reach it. He got hammered for "special skill", "sophisticated means" and "means of identification" bonuses.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/41-months-weev-underst...