UK: Businesses call for tougher sentences for hackers
René Millman writes in SC Magazine:
More than eight out of ten British businesses think hackers should get longer sentences, according to a new poll.
The survey of 330 business PC users, conducted by antivirus company Sophos, revealed that 86 percent believed that the British virus writers responsible for the TK Worm, jailed last Friday, should have been given harsher sentences by the authorities.
Members of the Thr34t-Krew cybercrime gang, Andrew Harvey and Jordan Bradley, were sentenced to six months and three months in jail respectively for causing unauthorized modification of computers with intent.
Only three percent of respondents believed that the sentence given out at Newcastle Crown Court was too harsh. 11 percent thought the punishment for creating the trojan, which was designed to take control of victim's computers, as fair.
posted by Fergie @ 10/12/2005 11:37:00 AM
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