Former Amazon Worker Gets Probation For Massive Capital One Hack (apnews.com) 76
A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation. From a report: U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik said sentencing former Amazon software engineer Paige Thompson to time in prison would have been particularly difficult on her "because of her mental health and transgender status," the Department of Justice said in a statement.
U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said his office was "very disappointed" with the sentencing decision, adding prosecutors had asked for Thompson to serve seven years in prison. "This is not what justice looks like," Brown said in the statement. In June, a Seattle jury found her guilty of wire fraud, unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer. The jury acquitted her of other charges, including access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said his office was "very disappointed" with the sentencing decision, adding prosecutors had asked for Thompson to serve seven years in prison. "This is not what justice looks like," Brown said in the statement. In June, a Seattle jury found her guilty of wire fraud, unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer. The jury acquitted her of other charges, including access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Oh. (Score:5, Interesting)
"transgender status" is a get-out-of-jail-nearly-free card now.
Don't say gay, say trans!
Re:Oh. (Score:5, Insightful)
This. If trans people want to be accepted as normal, that acceptance goes for privileges as well as punishments. You can't have it both ways, choose one: normal treatment, or special treatment.
Re:Oh. (Score:4, Insightful)
Being transexual is a symptom of mental disorder. No amount of sociological study will change this biological fact. Using it as a criminal defense is a bridge too far, particularly when the mental disorder was likely contributory to the crime.
We really should see a rebirth of the sanitarium to help treat people with mental disorder. They were generally much more successful at helping people with mental disorders than modern pharma, as they tried to treat the cause, not the symptom.
Re: Oh. (Score:2)
I'm honestly a bit awestruck that there don't appear to be any raised eyebrows within the psychiatry community over the fact that we've seen a recent surge in the number of transgender people. It's so easy to misdiagnose anything and everything psychological. Given how the media and the LGBT scene love to hate on detrans people, I somewhat wonder whether many trans people might have second thoughts, but are too afraid to say anything about it. Basically the opposite of that guy in the "Pray Away" documentar
Re: Oh. (Score:1)
I think your factors (increased acceptance and awareness) are accurate, but I suspect there's a fad component too, especially on college campuses. If you're a (not particularly athletic or macho) cis white male trying to get in with the social justice chicks, why not identify as non-binary so as to go from oppressor to oppressed? Guys have done a lot more desperate things to get laid. Alternately, if you're a female who grew up in a strict social conservative household, maybe cosplaying as non-female for aw
Re: Oh. (Score:3)
The Internet itself might be a source of misdiagnoses. If you quickly browse through r/detrans, a common theme there seems to be that a lot of them were turned on by the idea that if they were trans they'd have a lot more friends and supportive people in their life where they previously had none, so they were somewhat attracted to the idea that they themselves were trans. Then some time later, after going through irreversible changes, and then after the hedonic treadmill does what it does, they still had th
Re: Oh. (Score:2)
I'm not saying that it is indicative of a problem for certain, what I'm saying is that nobody is taking any effort to reevaluate the screening process to make sure it works as intended. In fact, very much the opposite is happening, now we're seeing that merely having informed consent is enough, eliminating screening outright.
We know bug catchers are rare, but there's an easy explanation for that: The vast majority of homosexuals don't experience dysphoria. Dysphoria meaning the opposite of euphoria. But we
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The public schools have spent the past 20 years grooming children for LGBT and -adjacent lifestyles, and the last several years have been spent investing significant energies into grooming them for transsexuality. This push was much more significant than the "gay acceptance" push, because it was more than just sexuality, it was an entire ideological outlook on the world based on the pre-existing class- and victim-based virtue scale.
Psychologists have effectively been the victims of regulatory capture. They
Re: Oh. (Score:2)
Your wild-eyed, highly implausible conspiracy theory is hugely ingratious to the educators who've dedicated their lives to the nation's children at scant pay (most places, not all) and minimal resources. Between agenda-wielding politicians, stifling consultants and administrators, and variously neurotic or absent parents, they are too often the only ones who give a damn about the kids.
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Do you have children? Have they been to public school?
Agree with the other poster: most teachers are dimwitted salarymen, bullies, and barely educated in basic grammar and math. That goes for the high school teachers. The daycare I sent my child to prior to school had higher academic standards for their teachers.
But public school teachers are pretty quick to push politicized leftist/woke/intersectional agendas about race, gender, and so on. Which, I don't know - might have something to do with 30% of high s
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Do you think a trans-man (or whatever you'd call a genetic woman who tries to bit-flip to male) would get the same treatment?
Nope, she'd likely not. Ironically, this is probably just another symptom of our gynocentric society.
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Considering "man" and "woman" are genetic qualities, indicated by XY and XX chromosomes, "she" and "woman" would be the correct terms for someone who self-identifies as a "trans man".
Encouraging people who are mentally ill is not something I'm too fond of doing, and won't confuse the discussion by doing so.
Regarding prison rape... "trans women" have been specifically implicated as the cause in a very large number of prison rapes and pregnancies over the past several years. Biological, genetic men should go
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Yes, dear, that's logic and reason, not a vague appeal to emotion or charged accusation.
That is both hilarious and sad at the same time.
Re: Oh. (Score:2)
Be interesting to see what happens to the trans Major and his Russian sympathiser wife who tried passing on med info to supposed Russian spy ( really fbi)
S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik said (Score:2, Insightful)
"Sentencing former Amazon software engineer Paige Thompson to time in prison would have been particularly difficult on her "because of her mental health and transgender status," the Department of Justice said in a statement.
I guess I will claim I am transgender if I ever commit a crime so I too won't have to go to prison.
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Based.
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I agree with the DOJ here - prison would have particularly difficult; probably cruel and a violation of his fifth amendment rights.
He should have been involuntarily committed until such time as he accepts what sex he is, and then sent to prison.
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eighth amendment. - rather
Congratulations. FFS. (Score:4, Insightful)
Next they will start commuting death penalties because the defendants 'don't want to die'.
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Next they will start commuting death penalties because the defendants 'don't want to die'.
I think that would be a totally legitimate excuse for the innocent ones. Unless you believe innocent people never get executed LOL.
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Let me know when he actually tries to overthrow the US government.
mUH jAN 6 - give me a fucking break. BLM wreaked havoc on big cities throughout the entire country throughout most of 2020 and you didn't say shit. I wonder why not...
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But this was a MASSIVE HACK.
Trumps is just a massive hack.
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Seven years is not enough, our civilization is becoming uncivilized because punishments are not hard enough to make would be criminals think twice.
Nah, you would need to hand out punishments first. Especially against the people that need them. All the crooks in the Whitehouse and Wall Street.
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Yeah, but if we started punishing people that deserved it, who would lead us? I can't think of a single person in Washington that wouldn't deserve to serve hard time in any country with something of a moral compass. The whole thing is set up on corruption. And they've codified that corruption into law. Financing campaigns, Citizens United, Lobbying, the whole shebang is based on stuffing as much money into their pockets as possible throughout. How we manage to stay afloat at all is somewhat of a miracle.
That comes AFTER the conviction (Score:2)
In the US we do this thing where we have a trial, and find out what they did before sentencing them.
This person committed their crimes in 2019 and earlier.
What you are referring to was in 2020. Trump will be tried, and will be sentenced based on what the evidence shows he did wrong.
Boo hoo (Score:5, Insightful)
sentencing former Amazon software engineer Paige Thompson to time in prison would have been particularly difficult on her "because of her mental health and transgender status,"
Why in the hell would "transgender status" have anything to do with sentencing? Can't do the time, don't do the crime.
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Ranks right up there with afluenza as an escape plan.
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Basically the Judge is saying it's likely the person will commit suicide if imprisoned. While that is a possible outcome, I do think they got slapped on the wrist.
I think there are deeper issues with this person's mental status that transcend their gender.
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No idea, where you found this appearance...
I want the laws enforced so, that the (would-be) criminals are deterred from committing crimes. This requires a combination of high probability of getting caught (and convicted) and sufficiently severe punishment to make getting caught something to actually dread, rather than wear as a badge of honor.
(And, generally, the victims of a crime
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Is having your freedom restricted until you're no longer a danger to society not a sufficient deterrent?
Is the diminishing (or negative) deterrence benefit [wikipedia.org] of keeping people locked up long after they're rehabilitated really worth the cost?
And is setting her free after 7 years whether her mental condition is stable or not better for society than properly rehabilitating her first?
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Money crimes? Meh. Yeah I don't think punishments for first or even second offences need to be that severe. Money crime, money penalty plus some time to deter repeat offenses.
I tell you what I'm _fucking sick_ of though, is violent scum filth being let back on the streets to kill actual humans. I don't understand our justice system - case after case of "well, the murderer/rapist had a rap sheet a mile long including assault, sexual assault, armed robbery, etc...". What the FUCK? First offense for any kind o
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Yes, there's no incentive to rehabilitate when they'll let you out after 'x' years whether you're still a danger to society or not.
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Depends on for how long, does not it?
These may all be worthwhile considerations. The criminal's "transgender" status, however, is not...
slashdot owns conservatives (Score:1, Insightful)
I find it amusing that so many stories on slashdot trigger conservatives, and conservatives take it as validation of their position. You are a bunch of triggered idiots upset about nothing, and certainly nothing you can control. Keep driving up your blood pressure for nothing fools.
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Hey, give them a break. Being a conservative means constantly looking over your shoulder for those naughty trans people sneaking up on you from Antifa. Then there are the Jewish space lasers, they'll get you when you go out without your foil hat. You try walking around with a Faraday cage around your head and see how you like it...though at least it keeps new ideas from filtering in from the outside.
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You think you're joking, lol. I used to say a I lean conservative (no way I'd claim that now, don't want to be associated with those lunatics in any way) and I tend to roll my eyes at a lot of the modern bullshit but it doesn't offend me and I don't obsess 24/7 about trying to find everything "woke".
Many of those same concepts I roll my eyes at are called "woke" but I shy away from the word itself because it's real cringy now after being abused by right wingnuts. "Oh, you want a vaccine! You are super woke!
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$270 million in damage done (Score:5, Informative)
I guess one could argue the $80m fine was for negligence, and thus not the fault of the hacker. I hope somebody credible determined that, a skillful hacker poses a danger even if the defenders are taking reasonable precautions, and judges and juries sure don't know anything either way.
Trawling AWS with a script isn't a massive hack (Score:1)
Re: Trawling AWS with a script isn't a massive hac (Score:2)
The reason why Transgender status matters (Score:2, Informative)
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Our system is broken (Score:2)
We're to the point where even judges have to admit the prison system is a place where criminals continue to commonly commit crimes.
Our system is broken.
And one of the weirdest things is how normalized the idea is. Most people apparently don't have the problem with sending the average criminal to a place where extrajudicial violence is the method of maintaining control, and after so many years of living in this system, we'll consider the criminal reformed and send them back out to live with the rest of
Gen Z++ (Score:2)
Easy way to fix this (Score:2)
Yikes (Score:2)
Just do research on the judge (Score:2)