Late last night Smedley spewed a torrent of hate against 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki on Twitter mere moments after the youth, who describes himself online as an “untouchable hacker God”, was convicted of 50,700 computer crimes charges.
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“His parents need to be held accountable for his actions in addition to going to jail”, Smedley added.
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He instead received a two-year suspended prison sentence from the District Court of Espoo, had his computer confiscated, and was ordered to surrender €6,588 (£4,725) worth of property obtained through his crimes. John Smedley, ex- Sony Online Entertainment boss, took to Twitter to voice his anger. You shouldn’t be able to do crap like this without any hint of a effect.
Amidst the harshness of the misconducts, the 17-year old has not been put to jail.
“Whilst I’m sure the courts considered all the circumstances surrounding the conviction and the sentence that was warranted, there is a question as to whether such sentences will act as a deterrent to other hackers”, said the consultant, Alan Woodward. He used stolen credit card information to make 21 purchases (among them, champagne) and took 7GB of email data from MIT, after routing it through a Harvard University server.
Unfortunately, it appears that his public display of outrage has had some negative consequences for his company. The trouble persisted across all Daybreak games, websites, and forums until this morning, when it appeared to subside.
Daybreak’s CEO is still unhappy about PlayStation Network attack.
The recent surge in problem in the recent hour could be linked to a further message posted by Lizard Squad: “Time for some more fun”. “The teams are working to resolve it, but we do not have an ETA at this time”. Hope you like our present John Smedley (the CEO).
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This is a fearless new world we’re living in, and justice systems everywhere are coming to terms with entirely new ways of committing crimes, harassing others, and what the proper punishments and preventative measures are, and balancing all of this against civil liberties, privacy and so forth.
