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FBI Gets Evidence in Student Webcam Scandal

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30 pointselblanco5 comments

Excellent. I hope criminal charges come out of this investigation -- if someone who orders "obscene" manga from Japan faces 15 years in prison for doing so, someone who covertly installs photographic equipment in the bedrooms of minors should get at least 1000.

(As a tangent, the message I take away from these trumped-up sentences is that if you hate someone, never hack their email account. Just get drunk and flatten them with your car. Much less prison time, and much less of a social stigma...)

This is a true travesty. This should have been caught by anyone involved with the project as wrong -- even if it was legal. I am hoping that this sets a strong legal precedent against this kind of behavior.

(The best thing to do is clearly: get drunk, steal their identity, order obscene material, and then if you have time confront them)

"someone who covertly installs photographic equipment in the bedrooms of minors should get at least 1000."

Why?

They should spend the rest of their life in jail for invading someone's privacy? Is this to protect society or for revenge? Do you feel it's not possible to teach the person why you think their actions were wrong and release them back into society so they can continue to contribute positive things? What if there really was no ill-intent? What if the software was legitimately installed only for the purpose of recovering stolen property and the images that were archived were done so only for that purpose or accidently? Does the person responsible only have to serve a life sentence if they had voyeuristic motivations?

Personally I think they should spend the rest of their lives in jail for systematically and repeatedly abusing the power they have over the minors placed in their custody by society. Whether by ill intent or truly staggering incompetence and poor judgment means little to me personally.

(I imagine the consequences for flattening a vice presidential candidate would be...staggering. Maybe the lesson is to wait until they're no longer famous before doing the flattening?)

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