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F-Secure: Ancheta Sentencing Poll Results

Sean writes over on the F-Secure "News from the Lab" Blog:

With 725 participants the results break down like this:

• 294 - 40.6% thought that the sentence was Fair Enough or Just Right
• 213 - 29.4% thought that it was Too Little
• 161 - 22.2% thought that is was Too Much
• 57 - 7.9% answered No Idea

We also received some e-mails on the matter. Reader Tony H. put it this way:

"Ancheta is believed to have had some 500,000 computers under his control. That works out to: Serving 1 year for every 100,000 or so machines he hit; Serving 1 month for every 9000 or so machines; Serving 1 week for every 2000 systems; Serving 1 day for every 300 or so systems; Serving 1 hour for every dozen systems; or Serving 5 minutes for each machine infected. Considering that it takes anywhere from 30 minutes to many hours of a skilled person's time to clean an infected system reliably, that means he's only going to lose 15% of the time he took from others - and he gets to sleep at least part of that time."

posted by Fergie @ 5/11/2006 06:25:00 AM